A history of prayer: the first to the fifteenth century

Introduction : prayer : a simply complicated scholarly problem -- Prayer during the first to 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 sermo...

Full description

Saved in:  
Bibliographic Details
Contributors: Hammerling, Roy 1956- (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Latin
Subito Delivery Service: Order now.
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
WorldCat: WorldCat
Fernleihe:Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste
Published: Leiden [u.a.] Brill 2008
In: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition (13)
Year: 2008
Volumes / Articles:Show volumes/articles.
Series/Journal:Brill's companions to the Christian tradition 13
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Prayer / Christianity / Geschichte Anfänge-1500
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B History of religion studies
B Prayer Christianity History To 1500
B Piety
Online Access: Inhaltsverzeichnis (Verlag)
Description
Summary:Introduction : prayer : a simply complicated scholarly problem -- Prayer during the first to 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 batismal 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 mediations 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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9004171223