Prayer in the Hebrew Bible: The Drama of Divine-Human DialogueFortress Press, 1993 M05 1 - 328 páginas Balentine invites the reader to consider several aspects of prayer in the Hebrew Bible: prayer and the depiction of character, prayer and the characterization of God, prayers for divine justice, the lament tradition, sensible praise, prayer in Old Testament theology, and the motif of the church as "a house of prayer". |
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The Context of the Church | 3 |
The Context of the Academy | 6 |
The Method | 13 |
Literary and Theological Functions | 18 |
In the Beginning God | 33 |
Gods Relatedness to Humanity | 34 |
Gods Relatedness to the World | 38 |
Jeremiahs Confessions | 150 |
Job | 168 |
Habakkuk | 183 |
Perspectives on Theodicy in the Hebrew Bible | 189 |
Praise That Makes Sense | 199 |
The Bārūk Sentences | 203 |
Extended Hymnic Pieces in Narrative Contexts | 213 |
Prayer in the Theology of the Hebrew Bible | 225 |
Prayer and the Depiction of Character | 48 |
Prayer as a Means of Confirming Status | 50 |
Prayer as a Means of Caricature | 64 |
The Temple as a House of Prayer | 80 |
Prayer and the Characterization of God | 89 |
Prayers for Divine Intervention | 91 |
Prayers for Penitence | 103 |
Prayers for Divine Justice | 118 |
Three Basic Features | 120 |
Examples of Prayers for Justice | 123 |
Prayer as a Vehicle of Theodicy | 139 |
The Lament Tradition Holding to God against God | 146 |
The Need for a Study of the Study | 246 |
The Theology in Hebraic Prayer | 260 |
The DivineHuman Relationship Is Fundamentally Dialogical | 261 |
Prayers Portrait of God | 264 |
Prayers Portrait of Humanity | 267 |
Prayer as a Constitutive Act of Faith | 268 |
House of Prayer or Den of Robbers? A Summons to the Church | 272 |
Keeping the Community in God | 273 |
Keeping God in the Community | 284 |
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Prayer in the Hebrew Bible: The Drama of Divine-human Dialogue Samuel Eugene Balentine Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |
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