Is dreamwork Christian?
The Bible clearly shows dreams and visions (waking dreams) as being some of the most reliable ways God communicates important truths to people. The Covenant, the Exodus, calls to various prophets, and the Incarnation are all revealed by dreams and visions. Not only do dreams play a crucial role in the Biblical narrative; they were also valued by many church fathers and mothers such as Origen, Jerome, Augustine, and Aquinas. Saints and theologians through the ages have relied on dream wisdom too: Meister Eckhart, Hildegaard of Bingen, Francis of Assisi, Julian of Norwich, Ignatius, Teresa of Avila, and more recently, Thomas Merton, John Sanford, and Morton Kelsey.
