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1 online resource (xviii, 484 pages) : illustrations |
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Brill's companions to the Christian tradition, 1871-6377 ; volume 13 |
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Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; v. 13.
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| Contents |
Introduction : prayer, a simply complicated scholarly problem -- Prayer during the first to the 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 baptismal education ; 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 meditations 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 |
| Summary |
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 prayer is required |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-470) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Prayer -- Christianity -- History -- To 1500
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RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Prayer.
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Prayer -- Christianity
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Gebet
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Theologie
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Bön -- kristendom -- historia -- forntiden.
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Bön -- kristendom -- historia -- medeltiden.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hammerling, Roy.
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| ISBN |
9789047424536 |
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9047424530 |
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