Heology Of Prayer
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Prayer: A Guide for the Perplexed
Author: Ashley Cocksworth
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date: 2018-07-12
Central to the Christian life is the practice of prayer. But what, theologically speaking, is going on when we pray? What does prayer have to do with religious belief and action? Does prayer make a difference? Prayer: A Guide for the Perplexed addresses these and other key questions regarding the Christian theology of prayer. Beginning with Evagrius of Ponticus's 'On Prayer', Ashley Cocksworth finds in this early document a profound expression of the 'integrity' of the experience of prayer and theological thought. Seeking throughout to integrate systematic theology and the spirituality of prayer, individual chapters explore the meaning of some of the core doctrines of lived Christian faith – the Trinity, creation, providence, and the Christian life – as they relate to the practice of prayer. Complete with an annotated bibliography of sources on prayer to promote further reading, this volume appeals to academics and general readers alike.
The Soul of Prayer
Author: Peter Taylor Forsyth
language: en
Publisher: Regent College Publishing
Release Date: 1951
"Here is a no-nonsense theologian who goes for the jugular. In Forsyth's company we are aware of both the glory and the gravity of what we are doing when we go to our knees in prayer." -Eugene H. Peterson P. T. Forsyth is sometimes described as an English pre-cursor to Karl Barth. He was born in 1848 to a Scottish family of humble origins and later in life attended Aberdeen University, where he graduated with first-class honours in classical literature in 1869. In 1876 he was ordained and called to minister in Shipley, Yorkshire. In his early ministry in the Congregational Church, Forsyth fought orthodoxy and sought for the right to rethink Christian theology and pursue liberal thought. In 1878, however, Forsyth experienced a conversion from, in his own words, "being a Christian to being a believer, from a lover of love to an object of grace." A profound awareness of pastoral responsibility was awakened which radically altered the the course of his ministry. His conversion thrust him from the leadership of liberalism to a recovery of the theology of grace. Quickly, he became one of the better-known figures in British Nonconformity. In 1894, he received a call to Emmanuel College in Cambridge, where he preached his famous sermon, "Holy Father" in 1896. In 1901, he accepted a position as principal of Hackney Theological College, London where he remained until he died in 1921. Over his lifetime Forsyth published 25 books and more than 260 articles. He is often credited with recovering for his generation the reality and true dimensions of the grace of God.
The Theology of Prayer
What is prayer? What part of us prays? What is the cause of prayer and what is the effect of prayer? Is prayer necessary? Who can pray? Pray to whom? Pray for what? (Spiritual benefits? temporal benefits?) How should we pray? On what conditions will our prayer be heard? Petition or worship? The prayer of Christ, the prayer of the Church, the prayer of the saints, the prayer of the Holy Souls, the prayer of individuals; vocal prayer and mental prayer: how do they differ and how do they relate? What are the degrees of prayer? How does prayer sanctify? The foremost American theologian of the twentieth century gives the Catholic answers to all these questions and more in this invaluable work.