Lord, Teach Us to Pray: A New Look at the Lord’s Prayer

by Arthur Paul Boers

Publisher:

Wipf and Stock

, 2008

Overview

The Lord’s Prayer has nurtured Christians throughout the ages. Yet today it is often well known--but little understood, frequently repeated—but seldom contemplated, much loved as Jesus’s model prayer—but attacked by some for naming God “Father.” Martin Luther said, “To this day I am still nursing myself on the Lord’s Prayer like a child and am still eating and drinking of it like an old man without getting bored with it.” The Lord’s Prayer can still offer such nourishment.

Key Features

• Provides an in-depth study of the Lord’s Prayer
• Analyzes differences between Bible translations
• Explores the theological and practical implications

Contents

• The Lord’s Prayer in the Bible and Today
• Our Father
• Our Father and the Sins of Our Fathers
• Providence and Obedience
• The Lord Looks Down from Heaven
• Hallowed Be Thy Name
• Thy Kingdom Come
• Thy Will Be Done
• On Earth As in Heaven
• Our Daily Bread
• Forgive Us Our Trespasses, Sins, and Debts
• As We Forgive Our Debtors
• Bring Us Not into Trial
• But Deliver Us from Evil
• For Thine Is the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory For Ever
• Amen and Amen!
• Let Us Pray

Praise for the Print Edition

Lord, Teach Us to Pray is biblically sound, spiritually rich, and intellectually stimulating. Boers shows the ‘Our Father’ as a prayer that is as wide as it is deep; it embraces all humanity’s yearnings and touches the inner depths of the human heart.

—Henri Nouwen

Product Details

• Title: Lord, Teach Us to Pray: A New Look at the Lord’s Prayer
• Author: Arthur Paul Boers
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock
• Publication Date: 2008
• Pages: 184
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Topic: Prayer

About Arthur Paul Boers

Arthur Paul Boers is associate professor of pastoral theology at Tyndale Seminary in Toronto. He is an ordained minister in the Mennonite Church USA, and a Benedictine oblate at St. Gregory’s Abbey in Three Rivers, Michigan. He wrote The Way is Made by Walking, Never Call Them Jerks, and he coauthored Living into Focus: Choosing What Matters in an Age of Distractions with Eugene Peterson.