Praying: Finding Our Way Through Duty to Delight

Year 2006
Type Book
Genre prayer
Tradition Evangelical
Original language English

For For a believer who struggles to pray and wants both understanding and encouragement. Not for one seeking techniques alone.

Should I read this?

For the general reader: 4 of 5 strongly recommended
For the researcher: 2 of 5 useful
Difficulty: 2 of 5 moderate

A book on prayer in its many moods, from praise and asking to complaint, written to help readers actually pray.

How it proceeds

Philosophic 1 of 5
Scriptural 4 of 5
Experiential 5 of 5
Sociological 1 of 5
Historical 1 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

Written by Packer with Carolyn Nystrom and published by InterVarsity Press in 2006; it received a merit award from the World Guild as a Christian living book. The authors treat prayer as of the essence of Christian existence, engaging beliefs, emotions, values, hopes and fears. Their stated aim is not only to clarify understanding but to foster Christian living, with head, heart and hands together. They lead the reader through different moods of praying, among them brooding, praising, asking, complaining and hanging on, and point throughout to the reality and character of the God who is addressed. It is the second of their joint books, after Never Beyond Hope (2000).

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Catalog IDW.97D2Y5.4

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