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Promise and Prayer

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  • Publisher: Cascade Books
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.2 cm

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In the Bible, promise and prayer are essential and connected components of the inter-personal relationship between God and his people. And both promise and prayer are kinds of action undertaken by means of speaking, utterances philosophers refer to as speech acts. In the case of promises this is clear: they constitute firm commitments to act in certain ways under appropriate conditions. This book considers biblical examples of divine promise, from both Old and New Testaments. All speech acts depend upon institutional facts, and Thiselton argues that in the biblical writings Divine promises are based on the prior institution of God's covenant. That same covenant forms the institutional context of prayer. Thiselton shows how different kinds of prayer--blessing, thanksgiving and praise, petition and intercession--count as speech acts in different ways and to different degrees.
Promise and Prayer and Systematic Theology
Systematic TheologyPromise and Prayer

  • Title

    Promise and Prayer

  • Author

    Thiselton Anthony C. Thiselton

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Cascade Books

  • Published

    November 2020

  • Weight

    314g

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.2 cm

  • ISBN

    9781725253612

  • ISBN-10

    1725253615

  • Eden Code

    5519201

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