Thy Will Be Done
The 2021 Lent Book
Thy Will Be Done
The 2021 Lent Book
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Paperback / softback
£9.99
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781472978257
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 26/11/2020
Width: 12.9 cm
Height: 19.8 cm
The 2021 Lent Book takes the Lord’s Prayer as a basis for Lenten reflection.
At a time of change, uncertainty and widespread anxiety, we need to discover again the freshness of our most familiar spiritual resources. Stephen Cherry’s Lent Book does exactly this by inviting the reader to immerse themselves in the most central, important and iconic of Christian prayers – the Lord’s Prayer, the Our Father.
Mining the tradition for wisdom and insight, and finding inspiration in the theologians of the past such as St Paul, Gregory of Nyssa, John Calvin, but also more contemporary voices such as Evelyn Underhill, Simone Weil, and Michelle Obama, Thy Will Be Done presents the comforts and challenges of the prayer in 36 short chapters.
This most accessible Lent Book, rich in anecdote as well as analysis, is daily bread for the spiritually hungry.
Introduction
PART ONE: HEAVEN
1 The shape of the prayer
2 Motherly Father
3 Our Father
4 The problem of patriarchy
5 Who art in heaven
6 Hallowed be thy name
PART TWO: EARTH
7 On earth as it is in heaven
8 God's kingdom
9 The parable of the delayed train
10 Kingdom - really?
11 The kin-dom of God
12 What the prayer is not
PART THREE: BREAD
13 Bread and wisdom
14 Bread and justice
15 Daily bread
16 Day by day
17 Bread, and yet more bread
18 Manna-mentality and the foodie generation
PART FOUR: FORGIVENESS
19 As we forgive
20 Weird Christian thinking
21 What exactly needs to be forgiven?
22 The trouble with sin
23 Divine pardon and human forgiveness
24 Grace in forgiving
PART FIVE: TEMPTATION
25 Avoiding temptation
26 Lead us not
27 Temptation, test or trial?
28 The Evil One
29 Focused negativity
30 Test by virus
PART SIX: GLORY
31 The doxology from the Didache
32 Ultimate fulfilment
33 Power - but what sort?
34 Glory
35 Amen
36 Thy will be done
Notes
This is a book that accomplishes its aim with an understated wisdom. * Church Times *
