The Struggle of Prayer
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The key to prayer is "not our action in preparing ourselves, but God's action in revealing himself," writes Dr. Donald G. Bloesch of Dubuque Theological Seminary. True prayer is not humanity rising to God in order to become one with him (the mystical ideal), but God reaching out to humanity and calling for a response of obedience. It is the constant struggle to take hold of the outstretched hand of God. This striving with a personal God is foundational to biblical prayer, stresses Dr. Bloesch. In "The Struggle of Prayer," he outlines an evangelical spirituality that has at its heart the "outpouring of the soul before a living God."
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0060607971
ISBN13:9780060607975
Release Date:January 1980
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Length:180 Pages
Weight:0.84 lbs.
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The Art of Holy argument with God
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I have a Calvinistic view of prayer and divine Sovereingty and this book was a challenge to read, all the more challenging because the men Bloesch quoted from were Reformers. The advantages of Calvinistic theology are obvious, the only drawback is that many ask, what is the use of man praying? Bloesch engages the reader into the answer. This book will cause many Calvinists and Arminians to wrestle all the more deeply with the Living God. The interesting factors are that DB uses are:The Prophetic Prayer (used by the Reformers)The Mystic Prayer (Used by Catholic-Anglicans)And the dangers of both extremes
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