tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post115209252101726864..comments2024-03-25T13:40:30.747-04:00Comments on Faith and Theology: Prayer as the justification of God-talkBen Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03800127501735910966noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-1152228360994091882006-07-06T19:26:00.000-04:002006-07-06T19:26:00.000-04:00Many thanks for these helpful suggestions.Many thanks for these helpful suggestions.Ben Myershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03800127501735910966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-1152156890107263642006-07-05T23:34:00.000-04:002006-07-05T23:34:00.000-04:00Paul Ricoeur has a classic essay, "Naming God" (it...Paul Ricoeur has a classic essay, "Naming God" (it's in his collection "Figuring the Sacred," I believe) in which he links theology with doxology (as do many others, of course).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-1152118875164768282006-07-05T13:01:00.000-04:002006-07-05T13:01:00.000-04:00That's an interesting starting point. Of course t...That's an interesting starting point. Of course the atheist often starts there too, and so does the person devastated by the realities of what we study as theodicy.Weekend Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10425001168670801073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-1152118335706220882006-07-05T12:52:00.000-04:002006-07-05T12:52:00.000-04:00Hi Ben,D.Z. Phillips is not a theologian, he is a ...Hi Ben,<BR/><BR/>D.Z. Phillips is not a theologian, he is a philosopher in the tradition of Wittgenstein -and an admirer of Kierkegaard, Weil, Flannery O'Connor and R.S. Thomas - which makes it all the more (not less) worth reading his early and seminal <I>The Concept of Prayer</I> (1965). There is much that is problematical for the believer - particularly over the nature of prayers of petition and intercession - but much that is helpful too in seeing prayer as a "form of life", and in explicating the "grammar" of prayer.<BR/><BR/>On the subject of intercession - if not exactly on the subject of your intended article - a useful recent contribution is Robert Ellis, <I>Answering God</I> (2005). I say "useful" in the sense of its presentation of the salient material, both philosophical and theological (including a chapter which looks at Augustine, Schleiermacher, Aquinas, Calvin, Barth and Origin). Whether Ellis succeeds with his own thesis - which attempts to combine the insights of such esteemed church fathers with the thought of Process Theology and Open Theism - is another question! The book comes with blurb-recommendations from John Macquarrie and Paul Fiddes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com