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9780567026330 English 0567026337 In Pray Like This, Rodney Werline offers a clear pathway into understanding and using biblical prayers. Far from being timeless spiritual gems, Werline shows that each prayer is tied to its own unique world of social structures, ideas about God, and assumptions about the way the world works - as are our own prayers. Because biblical prayers are not immediately transferable to our contemporary world, Werline leads the reader into a lively discussion with these prayers that is part personal spiritual memoir and part scholarly endeavor. As he states in the introduction, "The journey through this book on prayer is also a journey through the world in which I live as both scholar and Christian. This book reveals my own struggle to bring these worlds together and hold them together, and displays how my mind and soul encounter biblical texts.... On this journey and in this world, I carry on a constant lively conversation with the biblical text. This book on prayer springs from those conversations." Book jacket., Werline encourages us to look at prayer in the following way: to attempt to understand how prayers are tied to particular cultural and social settings. Prayers are part of and expressions of a collection of cultural ideas that have been arranged within a system that seems coherent and obvious to those writings the biblical texts. Prayers participate in and express a person's worldview. Werline shows the ways that--though many biblical prayers are familiar to us--biblical texts and contemporary readers come from different worlds. The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament contain many prayers. Large volumes have been written on prayer within a single book, or within the writings of one author, like Paul, or an individual prayer, such as the Lord's Prayer. Werline does not examine every prayer in the Bible or even write exhaustively on a single prayer. He has highlighted a few significant features of each prayer, and some of the prayers vividly exhibit the influence of a particular society's vision. For example, he examines the prayers of 1 and 2 Kings and 1 and 2 Chronicles because of the ways they are tightly tied to the authors' views of history. The writers' interpretation of history profoundly influenced significant portions of the Bible as well as the literature of early Judaism. >
9780567026330 English 0567026337 In Pray Like This, Rodney Werline offers a clear pathway into understanding and using biblical prayers. Far from being timeless spiritual gems, Werline shows that each prayer is tied to its own unique world of social structures, ideas about God, and assumptions about the way the world works - as are our own prayers. Because biblical prayers are not immediately transferable to our contemporary world, Werline leads the reader into a lively discussion with these prayers that is part personal spiritual memoir and part scholarly endeavor. As he states in the introduction, "The journey through this book on prayer is also a journey through the world in which I live as both scholar and Christian. This book reveals my own struggle to bring these worlds together and hold them together, and displays how my mind and soul encounter biblical texts.... On this journey and in this world, I carry on a constant lively conversation with the biblical text. This book on prayer springs from those conversations." Book jacket., Werline encourages us to look at prayer in the following way: to attempt to understand how prayers are tied to particular cultural and social settings. Prayers are part of and expressions of a collection of cultural ideas that have been arranged within a system that seems coherent and obvious to those writings the biblical texts. Prayers participate in and express a person's worldview. Werline shows the ways that--though many biblical prayers are familiar to us--biblical texts and contemporary readers come from different worlds. The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament contain many prayers. Large volumes have been written on prayer within a single book, or within the writings of one author, like Paul, or an individual prayer, such as the Lord's Prayer. Werline does not examine every prayer in the Bible or even write exhaustively on a single prayer. He has highlighted a few significant features of each prayer, and some of the prayers vividly exhibit the influence of a particular society's vision. For example, he examines the prayers of 1 and 2 Kings and 1 and 2 Chronicles because of the ways they are tightly tied to the authors' views of history. The writers' interpretation of history profoundly influenced significant portions of the Bible as well as the literature of early Judaism. >