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Relating through Prayer

Identity Formation in Early Christianity

Maria Louise Munkholt Christensen author Anders-Christian Jacobsen editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Peter Lang AG

Published:31st May '19

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This book analyses early Christian texts on prayer. These texts provide a rich perspective on the formation of Christian identity in the early church. The primary sources investigated are the four earliest known treatises on prayer in Christian history, written by Clement, Origen, Tertullian and Cyprian in the beginning of the third century. Prayer and identity have both individual and collective expressions, and theological treatises reveal an interplay between these phenomena. The book examines the relational character of Christian prayer: how prayer establishes a relationship between the individual and God; how other social relations are reinforced by prayer in direct and indirect ways; and how individual Christians are connected to their own self in prayer.

ISBN: 9783631670934

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 583g

340 pages

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