Anyone Can Pray
A Guide to Christian Ways of Praying
Published on 20. June 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-281-06031-3 (ISBN)
Description
Anyone can pray. It's as simple as getting in touch with your best friend. You don't need to be a saint. And you definitely don't have to have a degree in theology, a particular type of personality or special spiritual attributes. People of all ages and conditions can pray. The author has listened to the compelling prayers of a murderer and someone with Down's syndrome, the almost inarticulate utterances of a bed-ridden quadriplegic and the erudite prayers of poets and academics. Jesus selected ordinary people - fisherman, a freedom fighter, and a tax collector - as his disciples, and taught them how to pray. If they could learn, we can too.
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THE REVD GRAEME DAVIDSON, an Oxford graduate in theology, has served as an Anglican priest in the UK, the USA and New Zealand. He is co-founder and editor of Theological Editions, an independent publication with a large collection of selected religion-related news, views and review links, and the author of Anyone Can Pray: A Guide to Methods of Christian Prayer (Paulist Press, 1983), here rewritten and updated.