Demonstrates the importance of social location and cultural presuppositions in the interpretation of cultic texts and acts.

C. Clifton Black provides a thorough analysis of the most famous prayer in the Christian church, the Lords Prayer. He begins with an impressionist painting of h

“Prayer is real religion,” said Auguste Sabatier. If so, the academic study of prayer allows scholars to examine the very heart of religious practices, beli

This book offers a virtue-centered account of moral theology that is rooted in the Sermon of the Mount.

From early on, Christians passed down the account of Jesus’s agony at the prospect of his own death and his prayer that the cup should pass from him (Gethsema