The Our Father
Published on 7. December 2012
Book
Pamphlet
32 pages
978-0-7283-0202-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Our Father, or Lord's Prayer, is Jesus' own teaching on prayer. Many commentaries have been written on this central prayer of Christianity, from the early Church to the present day. These commentaries have a basic similarity, but the writers' detailed perceptions vary.
In this contribution to the available literature, Sister Benedicta Ward chooses five writers from the third to the sixteenth centuries-Origen, John Cassian, the Venerable Bede, Alcuin of York and Teresa of Avila-allowing them to shed light on the Our Father in their own words. The result is a scholarly, yet accessible, book which affirms the Christian journey as one of pilgrimage, of being and becoming. Although our humanity is redeemed through the death and resurrection of Christ, each of us has to appropriate this fact entirely personally, in our prayer and in our lives.
In this contribution to the available literature, Sister Benedicta Ward chooses five writers from the third to the sixteenth centuries-Origen, John Cassian, the Venerable Bede, Alcuin of York and Teresa of Avila-allowing them to shed light on the Our Father in their own words. The result is a scholarly, yet accessible, book which affirms the Christian journey as one of pilgrimage, of being and becoming. Although our humanity is redeemed through the death and resurrection of Christ, each of us has to appropriate this fact entirely personally, in our prayer and in our lives.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
SLG Press
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7283-0202-0 (9780728302020)
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SISTER BENEDICTA WARD SLG is Reader in the History of Christian Spirituality at the University of Oxford and a supernumerary Fellow of Harris Manchester College. She is a leading authority on the legacy of the Desert Fathers. Her numerous published works include books on the Desert Fathers, the Venerable Bede, St Anselm, and on miracles and relics in mediaeval times.
She is a member of the Sisters of the Love of God, an Anglican religious community in Oxford.
She is a member of the Sisters of the Love of God, an Anglican religious community in Oxford.