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oapen-20.500.12657-862802023-12-23T02:34:34Z Biblical Theology of prayer in the Old Testament Coetsee, Albert J Viljoen, Francois Haynes, Matthew Firth, David G Dekker, Jaap Rochester, Kathleen M Snyman, Fanie Moretsi, Lekgetho H van Rooy, Herrie Ho, Edward Kotzé, Gideon R Nel, Marius Floor, Sebastian J Jonker, Louis C Coetsee, Albert J Viljoen, Francois Biblical Theology prayer Old Testament praise worship confession lament bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRC Christianity Prayer is a major topic within Christian theology. The biblical text has various references to various recorded and reported prayers. In fact, references to prayer are found within the rich diversity of the various books, corpora and genres of Scripture. As can be expected, much has been written about prayer in the biblical text. However, a comprehensive Biblical Theology dealing with the concept of prayer in Scripture has not been published before, and this book intends to fill this gap, assuming that such an approach can provide a valuable contribution to the theological discourse on prayer and related concepts. This book aims to investigate prayer and its related elements – including worship, praise, thanksgiving, adoration, petition, intercession, lament and confession – in the Old Testament on a book-by-book or corpus-by-corpus basis. The investigation follows a Biblical Theological approach, reading the Old Testament on a book-by-book basis in its final form to uncover the Old Testament’s overarching theology of prayer, understanding the parts in relation to the whole. By doing this, the discrete nuances of the prayers of the different Old Testament books and corpora can be uncovered, letting the books and corpora speak for themselves. In addition, the advantage of this approach is that it provides findings that can benefit the modern Christian community and contribute to the practice of Reformed theology in Africa. This book is of significant value to scholars. It will inspire scholars to think about prayer and use the Bible as the major ‘prayer handbook’ in their spiritual lives. 2023-12-21T13:58:51Z 2023-12-21T13:58:51Z 2023 book ONIX_20231221_9781779952745_7 9781779952721 9781779952738 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86280 eng Reformed Theology in Africa Series application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International BK417-Web_PDF.pdf AOSIS AOSIS Books 10.4102/aosis.2023.BK417 10.4102/aosis.2023.BK417 d7387d49-5f5c-4cd8-8640-ed0a752627b7 9781779952721 9781779952738 AOSIS Books 12 258 Cape Town open access
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Prayer is a major topic within Christian theology. The biblical text has various references to various recorded and reported prayers. In fact, references to prayer are found within the rich diversity of the various books, corpora and genres of Scripture. As can be expected, much has been written about prayer in the biblical text. However, a comprehensive Biblical Theology dealing with the concept of prayer in Scripture has not been published before, and this book intends to fill this gap, assuming that such an approach can provide a valuable contribution to the theological discourse on prayer and related concepts. This book aims to investigate prayer and its related elements – including worship, praise, thanksgiving, adoration, petition, intercession, lament and confession – in the Old Testament on a book-by-book or corpus-by-corpus basis. The investigation follows a Biblical Theological approach, reading the Old Testament on a book-by-book basis in its final form to uncover the Old Testament’s overarching theology of prayer, understanding the parts in relation to the whole. By doing this, the discrete nuances of the prayers of the different Old Testament books and corpora can be uncovered, letting the books and corpora speak for themselves. In addition, the advantage of this approach is that it provides findings that can benefit the modern Christian community and contribute to the practice of Reformed theology in Africa. This book is of significant value to scholars. It will inspire scholars to think about prayer and use the Bible as the major ‘prayer handbook’ in their spiritual lives.
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