What Are We Doing When We Pray?

What Are We Doing When We Pray?
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 239
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781351873192
ISBN-13 : 1351873199
Rating : 4/5 (199 Downloads)

Book Synopsis What Are We Doing When We Pray? by : Vincent Brümmer

Download or read book What Are We Doing When We Pray? written by Vincent Brümmer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vincent Brümmer's classic book on prayer from 1984 provides a comprehensive philosophical analysis of central issues regarding the nature and practice of prayer. What do we do when we ask things of other people, when we thank them or praise them, when we express penitence for what we have done to them and ask their forgiveness? And how does doing these things in relation to God differ from when we do them in relation to other people? And what does this entail for the existence and nature of the God to whom we pray? This new edition has been substantially revised and updated. Three new chapters have been added which develop in detail a hint by G.K. Chesterton that faith 'is not a thing like a theory but a thing like a love affair.' Since prayer is the expression of this 'love affair' it is also the clue to understanding the nature of faith. These chapters contribute significantly to the current academic interest in spirituality by showing how Brümmer's analysis of prayer helps us to understand the nature of spirituality, of faith and religious belief, and of theology. Spirituality is not aimed at achieving religious 'experiences' or mystical 'knowledge' about God; it is primarily aimed at attaining the religious form of life and at coming to see the world in the light of faith. Religious belief is not merely a cognitive enterprise like science; it cannot be divorced from spirituality and the life of faith, and is therefore fundamentally existential and not merely intellectual. Serving as a valuable core text for students, this book also contributes to a number of current debates in theology and philosophy of religion: the debates on realism and religious belief, on the rationality of faith and the nature of theology, on the relation between religious belief and morality, on the relation between science and religion and the lively debate among evangelical Christians in America on the 'openness of God.'


What Are We Doing When We Pray? Related Books

What Are We Doing When We Pray?
Language: en
Pages: 239
Authors: Vincent Brümmer
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-15 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

Vincent Brümmer's classic book on prayer from 1984 provides a comprehensive philosophical analysis of central issues regarding the nature and practice of praye
What are We Doing when We Pray?
Language: en
Pages: 204
Authors: Vincent Brümmer
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

GET EBOOK

Vincent Brümmer's classic book on prayer from 1984 provides a comprehensive philosophical analysis of central issues regarding the nature and practice of praye
Who We are is how We Pray
Language: en
Pages: 172
Authors: Charles J. Keating
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987 - Publisher: Twenty-Third Publications

GET EBOOK

"[A] popular presentation of the relationship between personality and spirituality. The author relates the personalities of sixteen types of Myers-Briggs ..."--
Why We Pray
Language: en
Pages: 85
Authors: William Philip
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-17 - Publisher: Crossway

GET EBOOK

Prayer is foundational to the Christian life, but many people don’t really understand it. What is it for? How does it work? Why do we do it? This short and ac
The Source of Life
Language: en
Pages: 178
Authors: Jürgen Moltmann
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-07-01 - Publisher: Fortress Press

GET EBOOK

Beginning with his experiences as a prisoner of war, Moltmann anchors his reflections in a theology of life - and the Spirit as elemental renewer of life - whic