Celebration of Discipline is a book written by Richard J.
Foster. Since it was recommended to me I have come to learn that it is quite a
popular text on Christian spirituality. This is the second book that I've read
by this author. Some of the sources for his work were somewhat new to me. One
of those sources is a man named D. Elton Trueblood. Like Richard Foster, Elton Trueblood was a Quaker and a theologian.
Following is a quotation from the introduction to Celebration of Discipline written by
Elton Trueblood. It speaks to our current cultural condition in which happiness
and prosperity are measured by the size of your paycheck and the amount of
goods that you consume.
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| D. Elton Trueblood |
‘A genuine cultural Revolution would ensue if
considerable numbers were to obey the trenchant command, “De-accumulate.”
The greatest problems of our time are not
technological, for these we handle fairly well. They are not even political or
economic, because the difficulties in these areas, glaring as they may be, are
largely derivative. The greatest problems are moral and spiritual, and unless
we can make some progress in these realms, we may not even survive. This is how
advanced cultures have declined in the past.'
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