By Timothy Bradshaw
General Editor's Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1.
Introduction: Christian prayer and the Christian doctrine of God
1. A two-way process
2. Theology and experience: some significant witnesses
3. Jesus, theology, and prayer
4. The shape of the Lord's Prayer
5. The will of the living God
Chapter 2.
'Our Father in heaven'
1. Jesus and the Father
2. Prayer to the Father through Jesus
3. Image and relationship
4. The trinitarian Father
5. The language of God as 'Father': the challenged of Christian feminism
6. Is there a 'real' Father?: the challenge of 'non-realist' believing
7. Acknowledging the Father
Chapter 3.
'Hallowed be your name'
1. The Holy God as the wholly Other
2. Prayer as thankful resignation in the face of holiness: Friedrich Schleiermacher
3. Prayer as resting in they mystery of holiness: Immanuel Kant, Martin Heidegger, John Macquarrie
4. Prayer as personal encounter with the holiness of God
5. Prayer as finding holiness through Christ
Chapter 4.
'Your kingdom come'
1. The kingdom in tension
2. The Spirit and the kingdom: true freedom
3. Perfection is not yet
4. The kingdom of joy and suffering
5. Prayerful struggle for the kingdom in history: Karl Barth and Christ, the Servant-King
6. God's rule and the world: Process theology and divine persuasion
7. Transformation through the Trinity
Chapter 5.
'Your will be done on earth as in heaven'
1. The sovereignty and vulnerability of the divine will
2. Praying in the electing will of God
3. The will and the person: the challenge of Nietzsche
4. God's will and fate: the challenge of Spinoza
5. The two horizons of the divine will
Chapter 6.
'Give us today our daily bread'
1. Bread and life
2. Praying in expectation
3. God's response to prayer (1): William Temple and divine 'adjustment'
4. God's response to prayer (2): the power of persons in history
5. Petitionary prayer and change in God
6. Praying in time: the journey and the place
7. Prayer as the renewal of time
8. Daily bread: the need and the gift
Chapter 7.
'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Save us from the time of trial and deliver us from evil'
1. Seeking forgiveness 'face to face'
2. Forgiveness and personhood
3. Praying for forgiveness in the movement of divine love
4. Real relations in forgiveness
5. Forgiveness and time
6. Deliverance in trial and deliverance from evil
7. Deliverance within time and history
Chapter 8.
Conclusion: 'For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours, now and for ever'
1. The character of prayer: God-centred
2. Answers to prayer: the agenda of the kingdom
3. The God of prayer: present in the world in many ways
4. Prayer as human partnership with God
5. Prayer and the meaning of power
6. Contemplating God
Index
