We call for a catechetical spiritual formation of the people of God that is based firmly on a trinitarian biblical narrative. . . . Spirituality, made independent from God’s story, is often characterized by legalism, mere intellectual knowledge, an overly therapeutic culture, New Age gnosticism, a dualistic rejection of this world and a narcissistic preoccupation with one’s own experience.
-Robert E. Webber, Who Gets to Narrate the World? Contending for the Christian Story in an Age of Rivals (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2008), 121.