Introduction: Prayer in the School of Desire
Ashley Cocksworth and John C. McDowell

Part A: Biblical Perspectives

1. Prayer in the Scriptures of Israel, the Christian Old Testament
Christopher R. Seitz
2. Moses on Mount Sinai in the Early Christian Contemplative Tradition
Ann Conway-Jones
3. Transfiguring Speech: Prayer and the Psalms
Kevin G. Grove
4. Prayer in the New Testament
Stephen C. Barton
5. An Exegetical History of the Lord's Prayer: The First to the Sixth Century
Roy Hammerling
6. Ultimate Desire: The Prayer of Jesus in John 17
David F. Ford

Part B: Doctrinal Perspectives

7. Doctrine and Prayer
Mike Higton
8. The Act of Prayer and the Doctrine of God
Katherine Sonderegger
9. Creation and Prayer
Simon Oliver
10. The Christology of Prayer: Praying in Christ who is Priest, Prophet, and King
Tom Greggs
11. The Intercession of the Holy Spirit: Pneumatology and Prayer
Matthew Levering
12. The Hiddenness of Providence: Praying to a God Beyond Speech
Susannah Ticciati
13. Eschatology and Prayer
Gerald O'Collins

Part C: Historical Perspectives

14. Christian Prayer in the Pre-Nicene Period
Frances M. Young
15. Following an Arc of Prayer: Clement, Origen, Evagrius, and John Cassian
Columba Stewart
16. The Cappadocians on the Beauty and Efficacy of Prayer
Gabrielle Thomas
17. Augustine on Prayer
Jonathan D. Teubner
18. The Formulation of Prayer for the Formation of Faith in the Early Middle Ages, c. 700-900
Renie S. Choy
19. Anselm on Prayer: Lament of Self and Contemplation of God
Travis E. Ables
20. Thomas Aquinas, Scholasticism and Prayer
Jacob Holsinger Sherman
21. Retrieving Luther on Prayer: Spirituality in the Production of Christian
Doctrine
Paul R. Hinlicky
22. Pour Out Your Hearts Before God: John Calvin on Prayer
Randall C. Zachman
23. The Spanish School of Prayer
Peter Tyler
24. Prayer in Modern Philosophy
Scott A. Kirkland
25. Karl Barth's Very Theological Theology of Prayer
Ashley Cocksworth
26. The Scope and Status of Prayer in Balthasar's Theology
Travis LaCouter
27. Thomas F. Torrance on Christ, the Mediator of Christian Prayer
John C. McDowell

Part D: Contemporary Perspectives

28. Prayer and Natural Science: Brains, Bodies and Effects
Andrew Davison
29. Prayer in Analytic Theology
James M. Arcadi
30. Inter-Religious Dialogue: A Provocation to Pray
Catriona Laing
31. Prayer: An Orthodox Perspective
Andrew Louth
32. Silence, Breath, Body, Cry: Poetry and Prayer
Elizabeth S. Dodd
33. Reconciliation: The Place of Prayer in Conflict and Peace-Making
Siobhán Garrigan
34. The Lord's Prayer in the Life and Liturgy of the Church
Medi Ann Volpe
35. Prayer and Pastoral Ministry
Stephen Burns
36. Prayer, Gender and the Body
Nicola Slee
37. Christian Prayer in Black and Blue
Andrew Prevot
38. Praying with the Unwanted People at the End of the World
Cláudio Carvalhaes
39. Psalm 139 - A Prologue to Prayer
Tina Beattie

Index