Everyday Prayer with the Reformers

by Donald K. McKim

Publisher:

P&R

, 2020

Overview

“It is required, that our prayer be speech of the soule,” wrote royal chaplain George Downame. In this devotional, Donald McKim takes us back to the wisdom of the Protestant Reformers—including John Calvin, Martin Luther, Philip Melanchthon, George Downame, and more than twenty others. Drawing from their writings and prayers, he provides brief, meditative readings to nourish our prayers today with the wisdom of yesteryear.

Key Features

• Provides brief, meditative readings
• Explores the written prayers of John Calvin, Martin Luther, Philip Melanchthon, George Downame, and more

Product Details

• Title: Everyday Prayer with the Reformers
• Author: Donald K. McKim
• Series: Everyday Prayer Series
• Publisher: P&R
• Print Publication Date: 2020
• Logos Release Date: 2020
• Pages: 131
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Reformed Church › Doctrines; Prayer › Christianity--History of Doctrines; Prayer › Christianity--Meditations; Prayers
• ISBNs: 9781629957746, 9781629957753, 9781629957739, 1629957747, 1629957755, 1629957739
• Resource ID: LLS:EVRYDYPRYRRFRMRS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T23:46:08Z

About Donald K. McKim

Dr. Donald K. McKim is an Honorably Retired minister of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). He has served as Editor for Being Reformed: Faith Seeking Understanding for Congregational Ministries Publishing of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). He was Editor of These Days (2009-2014) and has also served as Editor for The Present Word and Joining the Feast in the Feasting on the Word curriculum published by Westminster John Knox Press. He was Executive Editor for Theology and Reference for Westminster John Knox Press (2000-2012); Academic Dean and Professor of Theology at Memphis Theological Seminary (1993-2000); and Professor of Theology at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary (1981-1988). Dr. McKim has al-so been Visiting Professor of Theology at Eastern Baptist Seminary in Philadelphia and Co-lumbia Seminary's Center for Theological Studies in Orlando, Florida as well as Adjunct Pro-fessor of Theology at Colgate Rochester Divinity School in Rochester, New York and Adjunct Faculty at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. McKim was Interim Pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church in Downingtown, Pennsylvania and the Trinity Presbyterian Church of Berwyn, Pennsylvania as well as Stated Supply Pastor of Friendship, Parish, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania. For two years he was a Visiting Faculty member in the Religion Department of Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania. He has served and presently serves on the Board of Directors of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and has served on the Board of the Buechner Institute. He has been a Distinguished Alumnus from Pittsburgh Theological Semi-nary (1994) and received the Alumni Citation for Achievement from Westminster College (2012).