Overview
By reflecting on the Lord's Prayer in its original setting, N.T. Wright offers a fresh understanding of Christian spirituality and the life of prayer.
Taking the Lord's Prayer clause by clause, Wright locates this prayer within the historical life and work of Jesus and allows the prayer's devotional application to grow out of its historical context. The Lord and His Prayer will stimulate and refresh the heart and mind of any reader.
Synopsis
Taking the Lord's Prayer clause by clause, Wright locates this prayer within the historical life and work of Jesus and allows the prayer's devotional application to grow out of its historical context. Grasping the Lord's Prayer in its original setting can be the starting point for a fresh understanding of Christian spirituality and the life of prayer. This is spirituality to stimulate and refresh both the heart and the mind.
Christianity Today
Wright combines a sharp homiletical style with his rich background as a New Testament scholar.... A helpful book for the devotional life of beginning prayers as well as for the more mature Christian, not only during Advent, but also throughout the church year.