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Prayer for People Who Don't Believe in God

Autor Vance Morgan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mai 2023
Does prayer have any meaning for someone who is no longer sure about what, if anything, is on the receiving end? If God or the divine isn't a "being" out there "listening," what are we doing when we pray? Many progressive christians struggle with prayer or, at least, with the kinds of prayer they are often exposed to: shouted, whispered, forceful, timid, begging, and demanding; everything from essay lengthy scripted petitions, to poetry read from a book, to rote recitations that no one pays much attention to, to pronouncements, to communications in a "prayer language." They are often gripped by the power of the Christian faith but are simply unable or unwilling to endorse or engage with many of its traditional beliefs, including traditional beliefs about God and prayer. If we're not trying to connect with the kind of God who takes notes, answers "yes" or "no," and grants or withholds favours, what or whom are we trying to connect with? And so often our words seem to travel no further than the ceiling, no matter what we believe. This is not an academic book, nor a "how-to" document. Rather, it poses questions that are important to progressive Christians and to the "spiritual but not religious." Working only with the assumption that prayer might have value even for those who are not sure what, or who, or even if God is, this book is about opening oneself to the "possibility of God."
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781773431642
ISBN-10: 1773431641
Pagini: 157
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Wood Lake Books (CA)
Colecția Wood Lake Books (CA)

Recenzii

Morgan challenges the powerful, but dead end, assumptions of so many about prayer, knocking down a lot of walls that keep them from prayer. But that is only half the case. Insightfully and modestly, he proposes some things that prayer might be in a meaningful life. One of the best is his meditation on Simone Weil's thought that attention and openness are at the heart of prayer." -- Rev. Eric Springsted, Ph.D. Presbyterian Minister, Former Chaplain at Princeton University, Published Scholar, 30 September 2019