Teach Us to Pray: The Lord’s Prayer in the Early Church and Today
Overview
The Lord’s Prayer is one of the oldest and most widely used short summaries not only of how Christians pray but of what they believe about God, the world, and humankind. Justo González, whose textbooks have taught Christian doctrine and history to thousands of pastors, draws on scripture, the Church Fathers, and his own life experience to make this vital prayer from the Christian past comprehensible for readers who want to understand—and live—Christianity in the present. Teach Us to Pray is for all who are learning or practicing Christian discipleship and ministry, from college students and motivated laypeople to veteran pastors and teachers.
- Provides an introduction for readers who want to understand—and live—Christianity in the present
- Focuses on Christian discipleship and ministry
- Draws on scripture, the Church Fathers, and life experience
- Introduction
- Uses in the Ancient Church
- Our
- Father
- Who Art in Heaven
- Hallowed Be Thy Name
- Thy Kingdom Come
- Thy Will Be Done On Earth as It Is in Heaven
- Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
- And Forgive Us Our Debts, as We Forgive Our Debtors
- Lead Us Not into Temptation
- But Deliver Us from Evil
- For Thine Is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory Forever
- For Reflection and Discussion
I never miss the opportunity to read Justo González. The eminent Cuban American church historian has long provided a wealth of insight into the development of Christian doctrine as it has spread across the globe.
—Matthew Barrett in Christianity Today
Justo González is an exemplary historian. Untold numbers of seminary students, now pastors, have been influenced by his long and distinguished work.
—Presbyterian Outlook
- Title: Teach Us to Pray: The Lord’s Prayer in the Early Church and Today
- Author: Justo González
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Publication Date: 2020
- Pages: 160
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Topic: Prayer
Dr. Justo L. González was born and raised in Cuba where he did his first university and seminary studies. In 1961 he became the youngest person to be awarded a Ph. D. in historical theology at Yale University. He is an ordained Minister of Word and Sacraments by the Methodist Church. For thirty years he taught in a variety of theological institutions. He has given hundreds of lectures in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. Justo has written over one hundred books, although he is better known for his two-volume The Story of Christianity and his three-volume A history of Christian Thought, which have been translated into eight languages. Besides his passion for connecting theology with the life of the church through publications, his most cherished and valued activity is the mentoring and encouraging of Hispanics and other minority scholars. Today, as a retired professor, he devotes his time to research and writing and to promoting Latino theological education.