(Paperback)

Encourages us to look at prayer in the following way: to attempt to understand how prayers are tied to particular cultural and social settings. This work shows the ways that - though many biblical prayers are familiar to us - biblical texts and contemporary readers come from different worlds.

(Hardback)

This book takes a fresh look at New Testament prayers through the lens of ritual theory. The new perspective brings to light the cultural genius of New Testament authors and their communities as they engage in this embodied practice in order to navigate their relationships with one another and with God.