ABSTRACT
This chapter will highlight the nature of spiritual practices and then introduce some examples of spiritual practices that are often part of Christian spiritualities. We will discover that Christian spiritual practices have the following qualities: link contemporary Christians to the past and insert them more integrally in the present; are personal and communitarian; link people intimately with themselves, others, the world, and God; involve total embodiment; are not necessarily utilitarian, that is, one thing done to cause another to happen; are subversive, transformative, and reformative; and teach new things by helping acquire knowledge and wisdom.
