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A history of prayer : the first to the fifteenth century / edited by Roy Hammerling.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; v. 13.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.Description: xviii, 484 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9789004171220 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9004171223 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: History of prayer.DDC classification:
  • 248.3/209 22
LOC classification:
  • BV207 .H57 2008
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [463]-470) and index.

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.

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