his name is Robert Hodgell...

Amazing work. I love it. I saw it at a methodist church in Clover, SC. I can't eem to find hem on the netin an easy way. How spoiled we are! Ha.

The Sequel

Davidson Forum on Reformed Theology

Dr. Otatti,

• Matthew’s Lord’s Prayer
• to “ ..father who is in secret…”
• understood to be an instruction as well as an actual prayer

• Luke, Ch. 2-4
• After “teachings” in other areas
• Prayer then is also a teaching on how to pray

• Heidelberg Catechism (2^nd Gen)
• Lords Prayer
• Important because
• Part of our gratitude
• 120, 129, catechumen learns by doing and reflecting

• John Calvin “Institutes of Christian Religion”
• Ch20, Bk 3, Topic of Prayer
• “True wisdom is knowledge of God and ourselves”
• knowledge of self = knowledge of God
• prayer = secret and hidden philosophy
• = experientially wisdom, insisting self is a relation to God and others
• “our father” indicates love and excellent care
• also, out, we are all one family
• Communion with God = Community with others
• Pray for only what is modeled in the prayer

• Walter Rauschenbusch
• Claimed we had missed the meanign of the prayer
• Does NOT focus on individual soul and eternal reward
• Kingdom – precedes and outranks all religion
• We pray the divine resolution
• It is a political and social institution
• Again OUR daily bread

• Leonardo Boff
• Process.. the prayer is headed for a destination
• A Final place of “ peace and justice”
• Sees the prayer as a prayer of liberation, it PUTS you in a place
• Kingdom = total revolution of structures
• Fears that “our daily bread” is “reduced” to just the sacraments
• This prayer takes bodily need seriously
• Material meaning serves the Eucharistic meaning

Usually we press piety and prayer into the service of our own selfish desires --- we NEED to be taught how to pray.

What is the background of the apostle’s original question, how should we pray?