The Lord's Prayer: Lectures
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The Lord's Prayer: Lectures

About this book

The Lord's Prayer: Lectures by Adolph Saphir is a profound and meditative exploration of the most universally known prayer in the Christian faith — the brief yet boundless words taught by Christ to His disciples. In this series of deeply thoughtful lectures, Saphir unfolds each petition of the Lord's Prayer with the precision of a scholar and the reverence of a believer, revealing new depths of meaning within its familiar lines.

Far from being a mere theological exposition, Saphir's work is devotional in spirit and human in reach. He approaches the prayer phrase by phrase — "Our Father," "Thy Kingdom come," "Forgive us our debts" — illuminating how each expression encapsulates an entire world of faith, ethics, and divine relationship. Drawing upon Scripture, philosophy, and pastoral reflection, he demonstrates how this prayer unites heaven and earth, the individual and the community, the temporal and the eternal.

What makes The Lord's Prayer: Lectures enduringly relevant is its union of simplicity and depth. Saphir writes not only for theologians but for seekers — for all who desire to move beyond rote repetition into genuine communion with God. His analysis is warm, eloquent, and transformative, encouraging readers to rediscover the prayer not as a formula, but as a living dialogue of trust, humility, and hope.

 Timeless in message and elegant in style, this book stands among the finest meditations ever written on Christian devotion — a guide for those who wish to pray, and to understand why prayer matters. 

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Information

Publisher
Bonhopai Books
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781779794109
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Religion

Table of contents

  1. Title page
  2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  3. PREFACE.
  4. LECTURE I.—PRAYER AS REVEALED IN CHRIST.
  5. LECTURE II.—THE MODEL PRAYER.
  6. LECTURE III.—THE DOCTRINE OF THE INVOCATION.
  7. LECTURE IV.—THE SPIRIT OF THE INVOCATION: FAITH, LOVE, AND HOPE.
  8. LECTURE V.—THE FUNDAMENTAL PETITION.
  9. LECTURE VI.—THE KINGDOM OF GRACE WITHIN US.
  10. LECTURE VII.—THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM.
  11. LECTURE VIII.—JACOB’S VISION.
  12. LECTURE IX.—THE COMPREHENSIVE SCOPE AND INTERCESSORY CHARACTER OF THE THREE PETITIONS.
  13. LECTURE X.—THE DAILY GIFT.
  14. LECTURE XI.—MERCY IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH.
  15. LECTURE XII.—SIN AND SALVATION.
  16. LECTURE XIII.—KNOWLEDGE AND CONFESSION OF SIN.
  17. LECTURE XIV.—TEMPTATION—FROM GOD AND FROM SATAN.
  18. LECTURE XV.—BELIEVERS TEMPTED, YET SAFE.
  19. LECTURE XVI.—THE LAST PETITION.
  20. LECTURE XVII.—THE DOXOLOGY.
  21. LECTURE XVIII.—AMEN.