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oapen-20.500.12657-862792023-12-23T02:34:32Z Biblical Theology of prayer in the New Testament Mulder, Michael C Francois P, Francois P Anderson, Paul N Müller van Velden, Nina E La Grange du Toit, Philip Cornelius, Elma van Houwelingen, Rob Klinker-De Klerck, Myriam Coetsee, Albert J Button, M Bruce Wilson, Alistair I Jordaan, Gert JC van der Merwe, Dirk G Francois P, Francois P Coetsee, Albert J Biblical Theology prayer New Testament praise worship confession doxology bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRC Christianity This publication deals with a biblical theology of prayer based on the New Testament. It forms the second of a two-volume publication on a biblical theology of prayer, dealing with the concept of prayer in the Old and New Testament, respectively. This New Testament volume begins with an introduction on prayer and worship in early Jewish tradition, followed by eleven chapters dealing with New Testament corpora. It concludes with a final chapter synthesising the findings of the respective investigations of the Old and New Testament corpora to provide a summative theological perspective of the development of the concept of prayer through scripture. Prayer forms a major and continuous theme throughout the biblical text. Prayer was an integral part of the religious existence of God’s people in both the Old and New Testament. It underwent its greatest developments during, after and as a result of the Exile and was deepened and transformed in the New Testament. In both the Old and the New Testament, God is the sole ‘addressee’ of his people’s prayer. This conviction continued into the New Testament, but was broadened with Trinitarian elements of worship, adoration and intercession. A biblical theological investigation is chosen as methodology. Since all the biblical books form part of one canonical text, the assumption is that the various theologies about prayer being displayed in these books can be synthesised into a developing meta-theology about prayer. As the Old and New Testament form part of the canonical text, the results about prayer in the Old Testament can be brought into play with the results about prayer in the New Testament. This eventually leads toward an overarching biblical theology of prayer. 2023-12-21T13:58:50Z 2023-12-21T13:58:50Z 2023 book ONIX_20231221_9781779952776_6 9781779952752 9781779952769 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86279 eng Reformed Theology in Africa Series application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International BK416-Web_PDF.pdf AOSIS AOSIS Books 10.4102/aosis.2023.BK416 10.4102/aosis.2023.BK416 d7387d49-5f5c-4cd8-8640-ed0a752627b7 9781779952752 9781779952769 AOSIS Books 13 360 Cape Town open access
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This publication deals with a biblical theology of prayer based on the New Testament. It forms the second of a two-volume publication on a biblical theology of prayer, dealing with the concept of prayer in the Old and New Testament, respectively. This New Testament volume begins with an introduction on prayer and worship in early Jewish tradition, followed by eleven chapters dealing with New Testament corpora. It concludes with a final chapter synthesising the findings of the respective investigations of the Old and New Testament corpora to provide a summative theological perspective of the development of the concept of prayer through scripture. Prayer forms a major and continuous theme throughout the biblical text. Prayer was an integral part of the religious existence of God’s people in both the Old and New Testament. It underwent its greatest developments during, after and as a result of the Exile and was deepened and transformed in the New Testament. In both the Old and the New Testament, God is the sole ‘addressee’ of his people’s prayer. This conviction continued into the New Testament, but was broadened with Trinitarian elements of worship, adoration and intercession. A biblical theological investigation is chosen as methodology. Since all the biblical books form part of one canonical text, the assumption is that the various theologies about prayer being displayed in these books can be synthesised into a developing meta-theology about prayer. As the Old and New Testament form part of the canonical text, the results about prayer in the Old Testament can be brought into play with the results about prayer in the New Testament. This eventually leads toward an overarching biblical theology of prayer.
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