Thy Will Be Done (The 2021 Lent Book )

by Stephen Cherry

Publisher:

Bloomsbury

, 2021

Overview

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.

Key Features

• Invites readers to immerse in the prayer that Jesus taught his disciples
• Facilitates an extended immersion in the prayer that Jesus taught in order to pray it more profoundly
• Provides short daily readings, six days a week, from the Sunday before Ash Wednesday to the Sunday after Easter Day

Contents

Part One - Heaven

• The Shape of the Prayer
• Motherly Father
• Our Father
• The Problem of Patriarchy
• Who Art in Heaven
• Hallowed Be Thy Name

Part Two - Earth

• On Earth as It Is in Heaven
• God’s Kingdom
• The Parable of the Delayed Train
• Kingdom - Really?
• The Kin-Dom of God
• What the Prayer Is Not

Part Three - Bread

• Bread and Wisdom
• Bread and Justice
• Daily Bread
• Day by Day
• Bread, and Yet More than Bread
• Manna-Mentality and the Foodie Generation

Part Four - Forgiveness

• As We Forgive
• Weird Christian Thinking
• What Exactly Needs to Be Forgiven?
• The Trouble with Sin
• Divine Pardon and Human Forgiveness
• Grace in Forgiving

Part Five - Temptation

• Avoiding Temptation
• Lead Us Not
• Temptation, Test or Trial?
• The Evil One
• Focused Negativity
• Test by Virus

Part Six Glory

• The Doxology from the Didache
• Ultimate Fulfilment
• Power — But What Sort?
• Glory
• Amen
• Thy Will Be Done

Product Details

• Title: Thy Will Be Done (The 2021 Lent Book )
• Author: Stephen Cherry
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Pages: 224
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• ISBNs: 9781472978257, 1472978250
• Resource ID: LLS:THYWILLBEDONE2021
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:23:33Z

About Stephen Cherry

Stephen Cherry is director of ministerial development and parish support in the diocese of Durham, and a Residentiary Canon of Durham Cathedral. His publications include Barefoot Disciple: Walking the Way of Passionate Humility, Healing Agony: Reimagining Forgiveness, and Beyond Busyness: Time Wisdom for Ministry.