Puritan pacific

Kathy Cowan  |  Reviews
Date posted:  1 Dec 2011
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THE SECRET OF CONTENTMENT
By William B. Barcley
P&R Publishing. 172 pages. £8.99
ISBN 978 1 596 381 919

Written by the pastor of a Presbyterian church in North Carolina, this book draws deeply from the Puritans Jeremiah Burroughs and Thomas Watson.

The author’s goal is to ‘take some of the wisdom of these “physicians of the soul”, and, using modern language, apply it to a modern context’. At the same time, he attempts (successfully, in my view) to wed these insights to the book of Philippians, which together make for a biblically grounded and spiritually nourishing read as Dr. Barcley unpacks what it means to learn contentment.

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