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Prayer in Scripture

Introduction
 
Many parts of scripture were written as liturgical texts.  What are the various types and models of prayer in scripture?  What are the possiblities and obstacles of using these ancient prayers today?
Notes
 
Reading

  • Scripture: Psalms 23, 103 (Praise); 22; 85; 121; 137 (Lament); 34 (Thanksgiving); 102 (Petition)

  • Secondary: Gordon Mursell, "The Psalms," The Way Supplement 72 (1991) 101-111 (on ERes)
 
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Bibliography
 
Place
 
Hamma, Robert M.  Landscapes of the Soul: A Spirituality of Place.  Notre Dame, Indiana: Ave Maria, 1999.
 
Wilken, Robert L.  The Land Called Holy.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
 
Pilgrimage
 
Artress, Lauren.   Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Tool.  Riverhead, 1995.
 
Practice
 
Gula, Richard.  "Using Scripture in Prayer and Spiritual Direction."   Spirituality Today 36 (1984) 292-306.
 
Longenecker, Richard N., ed.  Into God's Presence: Prayer in the New Testament, McMaster New Testament Series.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2001.
 
Norris, Kathleen.  Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith.  New York: Putnam, 1998.
 
--------.   The Cloister Walk.  New York: Riverhead, 1996.
 
Pennington, M. Basil.  Lectio Divina: Renewing the Ancient Practice of Praying the Scriptures.  New York: Crossroad, 1998.
 
The Spiritual Life
 
Bonaventure.  "The Soul’s Journey into God."  In Bonaventure: Selections (ed. Ewert Cousins; CWS; Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist, 1988.
 
Dante Alighieri.  The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, ed. and trans. Robert M. Durling.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
 
Jones, Alan W.   The Soul’s Journey: Exploring The Three Passages of the Spiritual Life with Dante as Guide.  San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995.
 
The Psalms
 
Pleins, J. David.   The Psalms: Songs of Tragedy, Hope, and Justice.  Maryknoll: Orbis, 1993.
 
Stuhlmueller, Carroll.  The Spirituality of the Psalms, ed. carol J. Dempsey and Timothy Lenchak.  Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press, 2002.
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