New Testament Prayer for Everyone

by N. T. Wright

Publisher:

SPCK

, 2012

Overview

In New Testament Prayer for Everyone, Tom Wright offers a sampling of his meditations on prayer, drawn from his popular For Everyone series. This volume includes compelling translations of all the major prayers recorded in the New Testament, and offers profound insights into the teaching of Jesus and the apostles on the meaning and practice of prayer, with stimulating questions for personal reflection or group discussion.

This volume makes a great place to deepen your understanding of prayer. As he notes in his discussion of Jesus’ teaching in the Sermon on the Mount:

“Prayer is one of life’s great mysteries. Most people pray at least sometimes; some people, in many very different religious traditions, pray a great deal. At its lowest, prayer is shouting into a void on the off-chance there may be someone out there listening. At its highest, prayer merges into love, as the presence of God becomes so real that we pass beyond words and into a sense of his reality, generosity, delight, and grace. For most Christians, most of the time, it takes place somewhere in between those two extremes. To be frank, for many people it is not just a mystery but a puzzle. They know they ought to do it but they aren’t quite sure how.”

Wright has designed this volume to be a helpful tool to guide you into fuller understanding of the theology and the practice of prayer. He explores New Testament teaching on prayer, as well as prayers in the New Testament, including those of Jesus, Paul, and Mary.

In the Logos edition, this volume is enhanced by amazing functionality. Important terms link to dictionaries, encyclopedias, and a wealth of other resources in your digital library. Perform powerful searches to find exactly what you’re looking for. Take the discussion with you using tablet and mobile apps. With Logos Bible Software, the most efficient and comprehensive research tools are in one place, so you get the most out of your study.

Key Features

• Includes compelling translations of all the major prayers recorded in the New Testament
• Offers a sampling of N.T. Wright’s meditations on prayer
• Presents profound insights into the teaching of Jesus and the apostles

Contents

• The teaching of Jesus
• The teaching of Paul
• Other early Christian teaching
• Prayers of Jesus
• Prayers of Paul
• Other early Christian prayers

Top Highlights

“What you are in private is what you really are. Go” (Page 4)

“Our sphere of reality and God’s sphere of reality—earth and heaven in biblical language—were made to fit together. Prayer is one of the key places where that happens.” (Page viii)

“The heart that will not open to forgive others will remain closed when God’s own forgiveness is offered.” (Page 8)

“At its lowest, prayer is shouting into a void on the off-chance there may be someone out there listening. At its highest, prayer merges into love, as the presence of God becomes so real that we pass beyond words and into a sense of his reality, generosity, delight and grace. For most Christians, most of the time, it takes place somewhere in between those two extremes.” (Page 6)

“So: treat God as a father, and let him know how things are with you! Ask, search and knock and see what happens! Expect some surprises on the way, but don’t expect that God will ever let you down.” (Page 11)

Praise for the Print Edition

Tom Wright is just about the most insightful and incendiary conversation partner for today’s preachers.

—William H. Willimon, author, Pastor: The Theology and Practice of Ordained Ministry

Product Details

• Title: New Testament Prayer for Everyone
• Author: N. T. Wright
• Publisher: SPCK
• Print Publication Date: 2012
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Pages: 160
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Prayer › Christianity
• ISBNs: 9780281069064, 9780281069071, 0281069069, 0281069077
• Resource ID: LLS:NTPRAYEREVERYONE
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:29:44Z

About N. T. Wright

Nicholas Thomas “Tom” Wright (1948–) is a New Testament scholar, Pauline theologian, and Anglican bishop and currently Research Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Early Christianity at St. Mary's College in the University of St Andrews and Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. Christianity Today named him one of today's top theologians. 

Wright was born in Morpeth, Northumberland, and recounts an awareness of God's presence from a young age—and that relationship with God ever since is reflected in his life and work. He's a prolific author; one of his most popular books, Surprised by Hope, frames the resurrection of the dead as the appropriate hope for all believers rather than an overemphasis on just "going to heaven when you die." He's among the leading theologians in the New Perspective on Paul debate. Wright has several honorary doctoral degrees, and in 2014, the British Academy awarded him the Burkitt Medal "in recognition of special service to biblical studies." In 2015, he was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Wright served as chaplain at Cambridge from 1978 to 1981, then as assistant professor of New Testament language and literature at McGill University in Montreal. Before becoming a chaplain, tutor, lecturer, and fellow at Oxford in 1986, Wright served as dean of Lichfield Cathedral, canon theologian of Westminster Abbey, and the bishop of Durham from 2003–10. In addition to the entire New Testament for Everyone Series, some of N. T. Wright's books include The New Testament in Its World: An Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology of the First Christians, Who Was Jesus, The New Testament and the People of God, God and the Pandemic, Evil and the Justice of God, Surprised by Hope, and Simply Christian. He coauthored Jesus the Final Days with Craig A. Evans.