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Biblical Theology of prayer in the Old Testament
Reformed theology in Africa series, 2022
Peer-review declaration The publisher (AOSIS) endorses the South African 'National Scholarly Book Publishers Forum Best Practice for Peer-Review of Scholarly Books'. The book proposal form was evaluated by our Theological and Religious Studies editorial board. The manuscript underwent an evaluation to compare the level of originality with other published works and was subjected to rigorous two-step peer-review before publication by two technical expert reviewers who did not include the volume editor and were independent of the volume editor, with the identities of the reviewers not revealed to the editor(s) or author(s). The reviewers were independent of the publisher, editor(s) and author(s). The publisher shared feedback on the similarity report and the reviewers' inputs with the manuscript's editor(s) or author(s) to improve the manuscript. Where the reviewers recommended revision and improvements, the editor(s) or author(s) responded adequately to such recommendations. The reviewers commented positively on the scholarly merits of the manuscript and recommended that the book be published. v Research justification Prayer is a major topic within Christian theology. The biblical text has various references to various recorded and reported prayers. In fact, references to prayer are found within the rich diversity of the various books, corpora and genres of Scripture. As can be expected, much has been written about prayer in the biblical text. However, a comprehensive Biblical Theology dealing with the concept of prayer in Scripture has not been published before. The current volume intends to fill this gap, assuming that such an approach can provide a valuable contribution to the theological discourse on prayer and related concepts. The current volume aims to investigate prayer and its related elementsincluding worship, praise, thanksgiving, adoration, petition, intercession, lament and confession-in the Old Testament on a book-by-book or corpus-by-corpus basis. A subsequent volume investigates prayer in the New Testament in a similar fashion. It concludes with a chapter that provides Biblical-Theological perspectives on prayer in Scripture as a whole based on the chapters' findings in these volumes. The investigation follows a Biblical-Theological approach, reading the Old Testament on a book-by-book basis in its final form to uncover the Old Testament's overarching theology of prayer, understanding the parts in relation to the whole. By doing this, the discrete nuances of the prayer of the different Old Testament books and corpora can be uncovered, letting the books and corpora speak for themselves. In addition, the advantage of this approach is that it provides findings that can benefit the modern Christian community and contributes to the practice of Reformed Theology in Africa. The various chapters of this volume are written by biblical scholars who are experts in their fields. As such, this volume represents scholarly discourse for scholars. The chapters of the volume follow the order of Old Testament books according to the Hebrew canon, with some of the biblical books investigated together as literary units. Apart from three chapters on the concept of prayer in the Psalms and one chapter covering prayer in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah, one chapter each is devoted to prayer in the Pentateuch, the Former Prophets, the Major Prophets, Minor Prophets, Job, Lamentations, Daniel and Chronicles. All chapters are original investigations with original results and were cleared of possible plagiarism by using iThenticate.
Marcel Sarot vergleicht eine katholische mit einer evangelischen Konzeption der Theologie des Gebets. Evangelische und katholische Christinnen und Christen können coneinander lernen. In der katholische Konzeption wird v.a. die christliche Gemeinschaft hervorgehoben. In der evngaelischen Konzeption steht die persönliche Beziehung mit Gott im Vördergrund.
The Conference Call for Papers presciently observes that although prayer "enables people to experience connection to God," it is also "a point of frustration for many—in part because theologies of prayer can often struggle to articulate how it should be understood and practised, and what its effects might be in the life of (the) believer(s) and/or in the wider world." This frames the questions to be explored in this paper, especially concerning prayer as petition, where the experience of many believers is that (whisper it quietly) it frequently doesn't "work" in the way that Scripture seems to suggest it should.
International Journal of Practical Theology, 2012
The command to pray invites believers to critically engage with their broken reality with a view of transforming it in the light of the new reality in which they participate in Christ. Practical theology, operating in the context of the bi-polar and tense relationship between theory and praxis, should be expanded to accommodate prayer as the inner mode of its operations to embrace the existential dimension of the faith praxis, instead of simply limiting itself to a socio-scientific empirically based descriptive paradigm. This implies that practical theology has to be embedded within the church as the domain of faith. Prayer, understood within the context of practical theology, offers a critique of theological theories that do not adequately address the implications for God, the world and believers inherent in the new anthropological status that the invitation to pray confers on those who pray. Prayer also critiques the existing praxis in three ways: it is, firstly, a transformational act in itself; it, secondly, acknowledges its own inadequacy to accomplish the needed transformation and is thus able to critique its own methodologies and practices; and, thirdly, it continues to hope for the transformation of the existing praxis based on the promise of the presence of God in and through the Spirit of Christ in the church. In looking beyond the existing praxis to God, believers are called to continually work and pray for signs of the coming Kingdom to be realised within their world. (English)
Prayer as God-knowledge (via Self)
Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, 2017
What is the purpose of prayer?AccordingtoKierkegaard, "prayer does not changeGod, but it changes the one who prays." Whilst much contemporary philosophyofr eligion focuses on the so-called puzzle of petitionary prayer,less is written about how prayer can changet he person who prays. In this paper,I discuss Kierkegaard'saccount of prayer in TheSickness unto Death and "An Occasional Discourse on the Occasion of Confession." Prayer,a si ti sp resented here, allows ap erson to gain ac ertain kind of self-knowledge and thereby draw near to God. Aftero utlining Kierkegaard'sa ccount,Idraw some comparisons with Harry Frankfurt'saccount of the will to demonstrate how prayer might allow for both self-knowledge as wella sG od-knowledge. II ntroduction Recent work on the philosophyo fp rayerh as focused almost entirelyo nt he question of how ap erson'sp rayerc ould changet he mind of God. This is the so called "puzzle of petitionary prayer."¹ However,not all philosophersort heologians agree that prayer should primarilys eek to changet he mind of God.The Danisht hinker Søren Kierkegaard, for instance, writes that "prayer does not changeG od,b ut it changes the one who prays."² This is al ine of thought which those who engagew ith the puzzle of petitionary prayer are familiar with. Daniela nd Frances Howard-Synder,f or instance, state that, [w]e agreet hat petitioningG od can make ad ifferencei nu s. However…most practicing theists assume therei sm oret oi tt han that and so it would be morec haritable to solve Iwould like to thank David Efird and an anonymous referee fortheir helpfulfeedback on earlier drafts of thispaper.Thanksalso go to the members of the St. Benedict Society forphilosophy of religion and philosophical theology at the University of York fortheir helpful comments, as well as to the participantso ft he Annual Christian Philosophy Conferencef or their feedback.
EFFECTUAL PRAYER IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
EFFECTUAL PRAYER IN THE NEW TESTAMENT "Joe" contacted me two weeks ago, heart broken over the condition of his ex-wife "Alicia." Alicia"s life has involved excessive amounts of alcohol abuse, intermittent overthe-counter drug abuse, and other morally questionable choices. She had been sick for a while, but this particular time involved a necessary hospitalization, which Joe attributed to another stint of binge drinking. A host of tests were run over the next several days and after weighing all the evidence, her doctor came to the difficult conclusion that Alicia was in full liver failure as a result of her lifestyle. He gave her two weeks to two months to live. Joe and I prayed, as we had several times over the past few months. I asked God to intervene on behalf of their family, for Alicia, Joe, and their teenage son "Jason."
Pastoral Psychology, 2007
Within the psychology of religion, religiosity has often been theoretically conceptualised and empirically operationalised in a variety of different ways (Hill & Hood, 1999). One research approach has focused on prayer, and although this area had been traditionally neglected, there are signs that this position is now changing (Watts, 2000). Given this, Psychological Perspectives on Prayer is a timely addition to the research literature. The book chronicles thirty of the key studies on the psychology of prayer, mostly published since 1966, with one study by Galton, dating back to 1872. Psychological Perspectives on Prayer contains eleven chapters each comprising two to four sections. Each of the sections is preceded by a brief synopsis of the papers selected. Chapters two, three, and four respectively examine the relationship between prayer and psychological development, adolescence, and personality. Chapters five to ten respectively examine empirical evidence for the effects of intercessory prayer, the relationship between caregiving and prayer, how prayer relates to faith, quality of life, coping, and health. The concluding chapter examines the concept of prayer as therapy. Chapter one commences with a review of empirical research on the psychology of Christian prayer by Francis and Evans (1995). They argue that, although prayer is of central importance to the psychology of religion, the empirical study of prayer is an underdeveloped field of research. This chapter reviews what is known about prayer from empirical surveys. Studies are reviewed which report: differences in frequency of prayer among denominations and between sexes; the role of prayer in specific situations and at specific life stages; and the effects of prayer on both subjective and objective well-being.