Syndetics cover image
Image from Syndetics

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

Contributor(s): Hammerling, Roy
Material type: TextTextSeries: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition: v. 13.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008Description: xviii, 484 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789004171220 (hardback : alk. paper); 9004171223 (hardback : alk. paper)Subject(s): Prayer -- Christianity -- History -- To 1500DDC classification: 248.3/209 LOC classification: BV207 | .H57 2008Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [463]-470) and index.
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 / Roy Hammerling -- 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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [463]-470) and index.

Introduction : prayer, a simply complicated scholarly problem -- Section 1: 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 / Roy Hammerling -- St. Augustine of Hippo : prayer as sacrament / Roy Hammerling -- Section 2: 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 -- Section 3: 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 -- Section 4: 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.

Powered by Koha