A history of prayer : : the first to the fifteenth century /

A history of prayer : : the first to the fifteenth century / / edited by Roy Hammerling.

“Prayer is real religion,” said Auguste Sabatier. If so, the academic study of prayer allows scholars to examine the very heart of religious practices, beliefs, and convictions. Since prayers exist in a wide variety of content, contexts, forms, and practices, a comprehensive approach to the study of...

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Superior document:Brill's companions to the Christian tradition, v. 13
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Hammerling, Roy.
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; v. 13.
Physical Description:1 online resource (478 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : prayer : a simply complicated scholarly problem
  • Prayer during the first to fourth century. Prayer in the first four centuries A.D. / L. Edward Phillips
  • The Lord's Prayer in patristic literature / Karlfried Froehlich
  • Piety and proclamation : Gregory of Nyssa's sermons on the Lord's Prayer / Michael Joseph Brown
  • Prayer as theology / David W. Fagerberg
  • Imageless prayer and the theological vision of Evagrius Ponticus / Columba Stewart
  • The Lord's Prayer : a cornerstone of early batismal education / Roy Hammerling
  • St. Augustine of Hippo : prayer as sacrament / Roy Hammerling
  • Prayer during the fifth to eighth centuries. Prayer among the Benedictines / Columba Stewart
  • The Lord's prayer in early Christian polemics to the eighth century / Roy Hammerling
  • Prayer during the ninth to thirteenth centuries. The prayers and mediations of St. Anselm of Canterbury / Benedicta Ward
  • Libelli precum in the central Middle Ages / Susan Boynton
  • Thomas Aquinas on Christ's prayer / Corey Barnes
  • Ashkenazic piyyut : Hebrew poetic prayer in a Latin environment (the tenth to the twelfth centuries) / Johannes Heil
  • Prayer during the fourteenth to fifteenth centuries. Jan van Ruusbroec on the Trinity, prayer, and the nature of contemplation / Rik Van Nieuwenhove
  • Prayer for the people : the Book of Hours / Roger S. Wieck
  • Sermons on the Lord's Prayer and the Rogation Days in the later Middle Ages / Paul W. Robinson.

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