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The disciple's prayer : the prayer Jesus taught in its historical setting / Jeffrey B. Gibson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Minneapolis [Minnesota] : Fortress Press, [2015]Description: 1 online resource (1 PDF (xii, 177 pages))Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • electronic
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781451496611
  • 1451496613
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 231.13789
LOC classification:
  • BV230 .G384 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction -- What prayer are we praying when we pray the "Lord's Prayer"? -- What are we praying for when we pray the Disciples' Prayer? -- What kind of prayer are we praying when we pray the Disciples' Prayer? -- The prayer's author and his disciples -- Is the disciples' prayer an eschatological prayer? -- The "temptation" petition -- Conclusion -- Appendix. Was John the Baptist the author of the Disciples' Prayer?
Summary: Christians around the world recite the "Lord's Prayer" daily, but what exactly are they praying for--and what relationship does it have with Jesus' own context? Jeffrey B. Gibson reviews scholarship that derives the so-called Lord's Prayer from Jewish synagogal prayers and refutes it. The genre of the prayer, he shows, is petitionary, and understanding its intent requires understanding Jesus' purpose in calling disciples as witnesses against "this generation." Jesus did not mean to teach a unique understanding of God; the prayer had its roots in first-century Jewish movements of protest. In context, Gibson shows (pace Schweitzer, Lohmeyer, Davies, Allison, and a host of other scholars) that the prayer had little to do with "calling down" into the present realities of "the age to come." Rather, it was meant to protect disciples from the temptations of their age and, thus, to strengthen their countercultural testimony. Gibson's conclusions offer new insights into the historical Jesus and the movement he sought to establish.
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Preface -- Introduction -- What prayer are we praying when we pray the "Lord's Prayer"? -- What are we praying for when we pray the Disciples' Prayer? -- What kind of prayer are we praying when we pray the Disciples' Prayer? -- The prayer's author and his disciples -- Is the disciples' prayer an eschatological prayer? -- The "temptation" petition -- Conclusion -- Appendix. Was John the Baptist the author of the Disciples' Prayer?

Christians around the world recite the "Lord's Prayer" daily, but what exactly are they praying for--and what relationship does it have with Jesus' own context? Jeffrey B. Gibson reviews scholarship that derives the so-called Lord's Prayer from Jewish synagogal prayers and refutes it. The genre of the prayer, he shows, is petitionary, and understanding its intent requires understanding Jesus' purpose in calling disciples as witnesses against "this generation." Jesus did not mean to teach a unique understanding of God; the prayer had its roots in first-century Jewish movements of protest. In context, Gibson shows (pace Schweitzer, Lohmeyer, Davies, Allison, and a host of other scholars) that the prayer had little to do with "calling down" into the present realities of "the age to come." Rather, it was meant to protect disciples from the temptations of their age and, thus, to strengthen their countercultural testimony. Gibson's conclusions offer new insights into the historical Jesus and the movement he sought to establish.

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