2000 Years of PrayerThe most extensive collection of Christian prayers available is now in paperback. Tracing two thousand years of Christian spirituality, it contains prayers from every era, every continent and every tradition. This extraordinary anthology provides a compelling and comprehensive portrait of the ways in which men and women have expressed their longing for God through the centuries. Arranged chronologically, 2000 Years of Prayer covers every significant era of Christian experience: prayers from the early church in East and West, the Coptic Church, Celtic traditions, medieval and monastic spirituality, Italian spiritual writers, Teutonic mysticism, the Protestant Reformation, English Roman Catholics, the Puritans, Pietist, Pentecostal and Charismatic movements, and much more. A brief introduction to each chapter outlines the defining spiritual characteristics of the age and traces the development of our understanding of prayer. Biographies of authors whose prayers are included, as well as an index of authors, themes, and subjects, are included. |
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... wisdom, intelligence, understanding, knowledge of his judgements, with patience. Farewell, children of love and peace. The Lord ofglory and ofall grace be with your spirit. Amen. TheLetter of Barnabas 21 Polycarp of Smyrna (c. 69–c. 155) ...
... wisdom, intelligence, understanding, knowledge of his judgements, with patience. Farewell, children of love and peace. The Lord ofglory and ofall grace be with your spirit. Amen. TheLetter of Barnabas 21 Polycarp of Smyrna (c. 69–c. 155) ...
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... wisdom tending Lambs of theroyal flock: Thy simple children bring In one, thatthey maysing In solemn lays Their hymns of praise With guileless lips toChrist theirKing. FromThe Tutor, translator unknown Origen of Alexandria (c. 185–254) ...
... wisdom tending Lambs of theroyal flock: Thy simple children bring In one, thatthey maysing In solemn lays Their hymns of praise With guileless lips toChrist theirKing. FromThe Tutor, translator unknown Origen of Alexandria (c. 185–254) ...
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... wisdom, deignof your great goodness to help and defend me. Guidemy heart, almighty God,that I may remember your presence day and night.17 They asked abbaMacarius, 'How shouldwe pray?' And the old man replied, 'There is noneed to speak ...
... wisdom, deignof your great goodness to help and defend me. Guidemy heart, almighty God,that I may remember your presence day and night.17 They asked abbaMacarius, 'How shouldwe pray?' And the old man replied, 'There is noneed to speak ...
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... wisdom to perceive you, intelligence to understand you, diligenceto seek you,patience towaitfor you,eyesto behold you,a heart tomeditate onyou, and alife to proclaim you; through thepower of the Spiritof Jesus Christ ourLord. Amen ...
... wisdom to perceive you, intelligence to understand you, diligenceto seek you,patience towaitfor you,eyesto behold you,a heart tomeditate onyou, and alife to proclaim you; through thepower of the Spiritof Jesus Christ ourLord. Amen ...
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... wisdom; direct our way tothe summit of yourmystical oracles,most incomprehensible, most lucid andmost exalted, where thesimple andpure and unchangeable mysteries of theology are revealed in the darkness, clearer than light; a darkness ...
... wisdom; direct our way tothe summit of yourmystical oracles,most incomprehensible, most lucid andmost exalted, where thesimple andpure and unchangeable mysteries of theology are revealed in the darkness, clearer than light; a darkness ...
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