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So We Believe So We Pray - Abingdon Classics
Author: George A. Buttrick

- af SO WE BELIEVE SO WE PRAY George Arthur Muttrick ABINGDON PRESS New York Nashville Foreword THESE LINES ARE written in sight of pine trees and a lake. Our world is set in monstrous contrast. Here is quiet in the city where 1 work is Babel raucous head lines, the tattoo of anonymous feet on streets the lonelier for being crowded, men called t... more »o war, the frenzy and the fortitude and above Babel a Damocles blade suspended by a thread. By what right do I find surcease, while other men are beset by the instancy of hunger and fear Yet such a book as I have tried to write is not remote, for faith and prayer are the worlds life breath. We cannot live on doubts, and we are not sufficient to ourselves, as our chaos tragically tells. We live by faith, and the well spring of faith is prayer. If faith should fail, our yearned for brotherhood would be but a ghostly light before the final thundercrash, So this book discusses the main avowals of Christian faith, and then the petitions of the Lords Prayer. As for the faith, according to my conviction our only real cul ture has been nurtured in it and every generation has need for a restatement of faith in its own words and bent of mind, a need doubly urgent in our time of dull factual isms and specious hopes. As for the Lords Prayer, it is prayers pattern and fountainhead and our newer knowl edge of the Gospels almost demands its reinterpretation, 7 SO WE BELIEVE, SO WE PRAY especially now when men at their wits end cry out on God. The linking of the two discussions, far from being forced, is In the nature of things for prayer becomes blind unless enlightened by the Faith, and faith dies un less nourished by the Prayer. The chapters on belief are based on lectures given be fore two groups The Ministers Conference held In Texas Christian University In January, 1948, under the leader ship of Dr. M. E. Sadler and The Ministers Convoca tion, under the auspices of the Southern California Coun cil of Churches and the leadership of Dr. Wilbur C. Parry, held in January, 1949, at the University of Southern Cali fornia. The substance of the chapters on the Lords Prayer has just been offered in lecture form at The Ministers Conference of Union Theological Seminary, under the leadership of Dr. Henry Pitney Van Dusen, president, and Dr. Laurence Fennlnger, dean of the sum mer school. The welcome and constructive comment of these groups and their officers have been a large asset. Indebtedness to many writers Is shown and acknowledged in the notes Other men labored and I have blessedly entered Into their labors. Gratitude Is due and here heartily given to my secretaries, Miss Ethel Elizabeth King and Mrs. W. Clark Schmidt, who have typed the manuscript and to my wife, Agnes Gardner Buttrick, who has corrected copy, prepared the notes, compiled the in dex, and stood by In constant encouragement. Only false modesty in an author could pretend that his book has no value. Many years of study, together with 8 FOREWORD the pastoral experience of a busy parish, have gone Into these pages. With such forging and tempering they should have some modicum of worth. I cannot but hope they may find readers, even that they may be a matin bell sum moning to a more gracious day. But no man can judge his own work this book may soon pass like a leaf on the wind. That issue, with all human hopes, is In Christs hands for He must reign by shining or untoward event, till he hath put all enemies under his feet of holy love. Let Him do as He will His will Is our peace. G. A. B. Sequanota Club Charlevoix, Michigan August 19, 1950 Contents PART I So We Believe I Bom to Believe 15 II Faith in God 28 III Faith in Jesus Christ 43 IV Faith in the Holy Spirit 56 V Faith in the Church 72 VI Faith in Forgiveness 88 VII Faith in Life Eternal 102 PART II So We Pray VIII The Lords Prayer and Our Prayers ........

ISBN-13: 9780687390496
ISBN-10: 0687390494
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Abingdon Pr
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