Prayer in the Gospels: A Theological Exegesis of the Ideal Pray-Er (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004231061)

In Prayer in the Gospels Mathias Nygaard offers a new reading of the prayer materials of the Gospels. The main focus is the theological anthropology of the prayer texts. This aspect is described through a text-centered analysis of the 'ideal pray-er', one aspect of the implied audiences. An emphasis on the responses elicited by the material in question gives religious experience a central role in the theological discussion. Nygaard argues that in the Gospels humans are defined by the gifts bestowed in Jesus Christ, and through the dialogical reception of those gifts in prayer. The result is a kenotic and irreducible understanding of a 'self' defined from without, as appropriate to the 'logic of the cross' and the eschatology of the texts.

Author: Mathias Nygaard
ISBN-10: 9004231064
ISBN-13: 9789004231061
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 07/19/2012
Pages: 284
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.90d