Hi, I just came upon your site using search terms evangelical and taize. In you article "Spirituality and spiritual direction" you ask, "Can you name one book about the classical practice of spiritual direction either written by an evangelical or by any non-Catholic before 1977?" Yes, I can name a Reformed theologian who wrote a book advocating the restoration of Calvin's own insights into the necessity of spiritual direction for all who would follow Christ: (which, he says, influenced Francois de Sale's) Jean-Daniel Benoit, "Direction Spirituelle et Protestantisme: etude sur la legitimite d'une direction Protestante". (Paris: Librairie Felix Alcan, 1940.) "Spiritual Direction and Protestantism: a study of the legitimacy of Protestant spiritual direction"

Benoit taught at the U. of Strasbourg Faculty of Theology and was influential in Roger Schutz's development - founder of Taize.

Blessings, Nancy