Prayers Plainly Spoken
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (646 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0830822097 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 132 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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He received his Ph.D. from Yale University and is the author of many books, including Performing the Faith, The Peaceable Kingdom, With the Grain of the Universe, A Better Hope, and Christian Existence Today. About the Author Stanley Hauerwas is the Gilbert T. . Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke University
They are so because I discovered I could not pray differently than I speak. I try to speak plainly, yet I hope with some eloquence, since nothing is more eloquent than simplicity" So writes Stanley Hauerwas in the introduction to this collection of prayers, as inimitable as the widely respected (and argued with) theologian himself. Therefore I do not try to be pious or use pious language in these prayers. I figured Texans 'figure' that God could take it, because God did not need to be protected. In other words, I thought it w
Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke University. Stanley Hauerwas is the Gilbert T. from Yale University and is the author of many books, including Performing the Faith, The Peaceable Kingdom, With the Grain of the Universe, A Better Hope, and Christian Existence Today. . He received his Ph.D
Jeffrey Sykes said A Theologian Prays. For a theologian who insists that Christian theology is about the task of learning to pray, a book of his prayers is very helpful to understanding his theology. Certainly these short prayers contain the nub of what he expresses elsewhere in his work. Thus, this book serves in some ways as a primer to Haurewas' thought. More importantly, the book is a challenging book of prayers that may be prayed so that God can change his Church to be a people conformed to the image of his s. "Classic Hauerwas" according to R. Cannata. If you hate Hauerwas (and everybody does, at least a little) then stay away from this one. But if you have wrestled with him and are at peace with his idosyncratic, unique perspective, then you will find some gems in here. This is good for devotional use. Its useful for finding phrases for leaidng prayer in certain corporate worship settings. It is helpful for theological reflection.From time to time my Orthodox Reformed theology bristles at his Arminian (though unevenly so),. "A little disturbing, maybe!!!" according to Gregory Nyman. Maybe the reader who thought that Stanley Hauerwas' prayers about those who lost their lives after the 9/11 attack was a little on the "demagogic" style, but I would disagree. It is time to pray with truth and honesty, and I would state that the 9/11 was, indeed, a judgment upon the United States by the hand of God, no matter how politically incorrect that seems to be. Some people don't want to think that God would judge this nation, but in fact, God doesn't owe this nation a