While ransacking through the files and drawers of my computer for the aforepromised article I could offer this following piece that also has to do with Tozer:
An interesting discussion between Tozer and Lloyd-Jones is quoted here, as well as a glimpse of Tozer's motivation:
http://www.e-n.org.uk/1997-04/379-I...f-A-W-Tozer.htm"Christian mystics
Tozer's hunger for God led him to study the Christian mystics. Their knowledge of God and absorbing love for him profoundly attracted Tozer. They were spirits kindred to his own. 'These people know God, and I want to know what they know.' But at the same time, the Bible remained absolutely central. [It is my contention that this last sentence, sadly, is not bourne out by his writings. But that would have to be a different article.]
'Once', Martyn Lloyd-Jones recalled, 'Dr. Tozer and I shared a conference years ago, and I appreciated his ministry and his fellowship very much. One day he said to me: 'Lloyd-Jones, you and I hold just about the same position on spiritual matters, but we have come to this position by different routes.' 'How do you mean?' I asked. 'Well,' Tozer replied, 'you came by way of the Puritans and I came by way of the mystics.' And, you know,' said Lloyd-Jones, 'he was right.'"
"coming by way of the mystics" - he means, almost to a person, Roman Catholic mystics. In some cases, as in Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross, markedly anti-Reformed Catholics.
Tom Riggle
