The Making of Evangelical Spirituality

“Thomas Chalmers once asserted, ‘The Spirit guides us unto all truth and all truth is to be found in the Bible; the Spirit therefore guides us unto the Bible.’ This once widely understood principle has been obscured and all but forgotten by the peculiarities of evangelical mysterialism. In this brilliant book, Jason Cherry not only shows us why this is, he shows us the sure pathway back to biblical orthodoxy.”


—George Grant, pastor, Parish Presbyterian Church





“Have there ever been people who can generate heresies with the insouciance of American evangelicals? Perhaps it has something to do with our ‘spiritual populism’ and ‘mysterialism.’ Those are terms that Jason Cherry employs in this helpful book as he examines the inversion of authority in evangelical Protestantism—once the basis for authority was Scripture, now for many people it is some form of personal revelation. How did it happen, and what can be done? Jason can help answer those questions.”


—C. R. Wiley, author of In the House of Tom Bombadil





“As Jason Cherry shows, the biblical portrait of the Spirit’s work has been distorted by the lust for spontaneity, the elevation of the self, an unbiblical dualism between the head and the heart. Cherry has done the historical and theological spadework to help us distinguish genuine intimacy with the living Spirit from the distortions of ‘esotericism’ and ‘mysterialism.’”


—Peter Leithart, Theopolis Institute