Conversing with God: prayer in Erasmus' pastoral writings
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1. Verfasser: Pabel, Hilmar M., (Hilmar Matthias) (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Toronto, Ont. University of Toronto Press c1997
Schriftenreihe:Erasmus studies 13
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The Principal Elements of Erasmus' Teaching on Prayer -- - Critique, Reform, and Defence of Prayers to the Saints -- - Interpreting the Lord's Prayer -- - Erasmus' Prayer-Book: The Precationes aliquot novae
In Conversing with God Hilmar M. Pabel examines Erasmus' understanding of prayer and how he taught western Christendom to pray in the Reformation era of the sixteenth century. To this end, Pabel adopts Erasmus' own rhetorical analysis of prayer, understood as a colloquy or conversation with God, and considers: Who is God, the audience of prayer? What sort of person should one be in order to pray? What is the proper object of prayer? With which words should one pray?
Underlying this analysis is a principle both rhetorical and pastoral: accommodation. Pabel explains that in teaching his contemporaries how to accommodate their prayer to God, Erasmus engaged in a 'literary cure of souls, ' or a pastoral ministry executed through the printing press
Conversing with God opens up for scholarly attention a much neglected aspect of Erasmus' philosophia Christi, building a lucid and cogent argument for the important theological aspect of Erasmus' prayers, which has often been discounted or denied by more traditional scholarship
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ISBN:0802041019
144267346X
9780802041012
9781442673465

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