2000 Years of Prayer

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• Publisher: Morehouse Publishing
• Year: 2002
• eBook ISBN: 9780819229762
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

The most extensive collection of Christian prayers available is now in paperback. Tracing two thousand years of Christian spirituality, it contains prayers from every era, every continent and every tradition. This extraordinary anthology provides a compelling and comprehensive portrait of the ways in which men and women have expressed their longing for God through the centuries.

Arranged chronologically, 2000 Years of Prayer covers every significant era of Christian experience: prayers from the early church in East and West, the Coptic Church, Celtic traditions, medieval and monastic spirituality, Italian spiritual writers, Teutonic mysticism, the Protestant Reformation, English Roman Catholics, the Puritans, Pietist, Pentecostal and Charismatic movements, and much more. A brief introduction to each chapter outlines the defining spiritual characteristics of the age and traces the development of our understanding of prayer. Biographies of authors whose prayers are included, as well as an index of authors, themes, and subjects.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• The Background
• The First Four Christian Centuries
• The Early Western Church
• The Eastern Church
• Celtic Christianity
• Anglo-Saxon Christianity
• The Medieval West
• Monastic Spirituality
• The Mendicant Orders or Friars
• Italian Spiritual Writers
• Teutonic Mysticism
• English Christianity before the Reformation
• The Humanists
• The Protestant Reformation
• The English Reformation
• The Counter-Reformation
• English Christianity after the Reformation
• Pietism
• Scots Protestants
• The Seventeenth Century
• Methodism
• Early American Christianity
• The Eighteenth Century
• The Evangelical and Missionary Revival
• The Nineteenth Century
• The Anglo-Catholic Revival
• Nineteenth-Century Roman Catholicism
• Nineteenth-Century Scots Protestants
• American Christianity in the Nineteenth Century
• The Early Twentieth Century
• Prayers from Two World Wars
• Black Worship
• The Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements and the Healing Ministry
• Twentieth-Century Liturgies
• Feminist Spirituality
• The Twentieth-Century Celtic Revival
• Prayers by Indigenous Peoples
• Twentieth-Century Roman Catholic Spirituality
• Ecumenical Spirituality Today
• More Contemporary Prayers
• Notes and Acknowledgements
• Index of Authors and Sources
• Index of Themes/First Lines