In the free article, we named what the church quietly decided and what the Bible never agreed to: that dreams are not a legitimate channel of divine communication. We walked through the density of dream material in Scripture -- the covenant at Bethel, the Joseph narrative, Matthew’s infancy accounts, Joel’s prophecy quoted at Pentecost. Here in the Inner Room, we go to the tradition the church almost lost: the sophisticated theology of dreams that existed in the early church and among the Desert Fathers, and a first practice for beginning to receive your own dreams with the seriousness they deserve.
What the Early Church Actually Believed
The dismissal of dreams is not ancient Christianity. It is recent Christianity. The fathers of the church argued extensively about dreams -- not whether they mattered, but how to discern which kind you were receiving.
