The reading list centers on Calvin's great chapter on prayer as the chief exercise of faith (Institutes III.20), Barth's treatment of God's lordship over creation and the theology of petition (CD III/3 and III/4), and Hughes Oliphant Old's Leading in Prayer: A Workbook for Ministers. Temple's Readings in St. John's Gospel and George Hendry's essay on prayer as the lifeline of theology round out the list.
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6. PRAYER
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Calvin, John. “Prayer, Which Is the Chief Exercise of Faith, and by Which We Daily Receive God’s Benefits.” In Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion, translated from the 1559 Latin ed. by Ford Lewis Battles, Book III, Chapter 20 (vol. 2, pp. 850–920). Library of Christian Classics, ed. John T. McNeill, vol. 21. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1960.
Also Calvin’s prayers—suggested prayers for Christians and prayers he used at conclusion of lectures.
Barth, Karl. “God the Father as Lord of His Creature.” In Church Dogmatics, edited by G. W. Bromiley and T. F. Torrance, Vol. III, The Doctrine of Creation, Part 3, § 49, pp. 58–288. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1960.
——— “Prayer.” In Church Dogmatics, edited by G. W. Bromiley and T. F. Torrance, Vol. III, The Doctrine of Creation, Part 4, § 53, section 3, pp. 87–115. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1961.
——— “The Christian Life (Fragment): Baptism as the Foundation of the Christian Life.” In Church Dogmatics, edited by G. W. Bromiley and T. F. Torrance, Vol. IV, The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Part 4, pp. v–xii and 1–213. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1969.
Temple, William. “The Lord’s Teaching on Prayer.” In Readings in St. John’s Gospel (First and Second Series), Appendix to Chapter 16, pp. 302–306. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1949.
Hendry, George. “The Lifeline of Theology.” Princeton Seminary Bulletin (December 1972): 22–30.
Old, Hughes Oliphant. Leading in Prayer: A Workbook for Ministers. Grand Rapids, Michigan and Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995. Thus reads the title in the official information; the cover reads “Leading in Prayer: A Workbook for Worship.” This includes essays and prayers.
Supplemental Reading
Buttrick, George Arthur. Prayer. New York, Nashville: Abingdon-Cokesbury, 1942. 333 pp.
Fosdick, Harry Emerson. The Meaning of Prayer. New York: Association Press, 1951. 188 pp.
Forsyth, Peter Taylor. The Soul of Prayer. London: Independent Press, 1949. 92 pp.
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Farmer, Herbert Henry. The World and God: A Study of Prayer, Providence and Miracle in Christian Experience. London: Nisbet, 1948. xvi + 315 pp.
Leith, John H. “Prayer.” In Basic Christian Doctrine, Chapter 19, pp. 262–269. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox, 1993.
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