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C. Clifton Black provides a thorough analysis of the most famous prayer in the Christian church, the Lords Prayer. He begins with an impressionist painting of how the ancients prayed during Jesus time in order to set the context for understanding the prayer he taught his disciples. Throughout the book, Black systematically interprets the rich meanings of each part of the Lords prayer. Additionally, he includes an overview of Christian thought on the Lords Prayer from early church mothers and fathers like Tertullian and Teresa of Avila to modern theologians like Karl Barth. Uniquely, this book is an academic study of the Lords Prayer with a focus on the rhetorical culture from which it developed as well as the theological, literary, and historical meanings of the prayer itself.

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""Clifton Black immerses his readers in the Lord's Prayer, attending to its literary, historical, and theological dimensions--and he does so, in his characteristic manner, in a book enlivened with clear, engaging prose. A perceptive interpreter who reads Scripture as a theologian and honors the church's theological tradition and confession, Black has produced a resource that will help persons and communities of faith today pray Jesus's model prayer more meaningfully and embody it in practice more faithfully. And if, as the author suggests throughout the book, the Lord's Prayer offerspar excellencean 'education of human wanting, ' this book will nudge readers toward prayers that align desires more closely to genuine needs and to the divine will for human life."" - Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology -- ""Interpretation"" ""This book is an excellent resource for pastors and teachers in the church. It not only provides a thorough exegesis of the biblical text, it also provides readers with historical context, important issues in the history of interpretation, and connections between the words and themes of the Lord's Prayer and themes in the wider biblical text. In addition, the book provides readers with thoughtful articulation and compelling questions for reflection on the meaning of the text for pas- toral ministry. Most importantly, the book helps readers to allow the Lord's Prayer to teach them the value of orienting their life toward God and to draw ever more deeply into prayer."" - Journal of Moral Theology -- ""Journal of Moral Theology""

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C. Clifton Black is Otto A. Piper Professor of Biblical Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is a member of the editorial advisory board for WJK's highly esteemed New Testament Library series and the author or coauthor of numerous books and articles, including Mark (Abingdon New Testament Commentaries) and Anatomy of the New Testament (seventh edition).

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