دانلود کتاب Analyzing Prayer: Theological and Philosophical Essays (Oxford Studies in Analytic Theology)

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Cover\nAnalyzing Prayer: Theological and Philosophical Essays\nCopyright\nDedication\nContents\nContributors\nIntroduction\n Overview of the Chapters\n A word of thanks\n1: Petitionary Prayer and Pride\n Pride in General\n Answered Petitionary Prayer\n Pride and Prayer: The Question\n Epistemology\n A Humean Conjecture\n2: Interceding for the Lost: On the Effectiveness of Petitioning God for the Salvation of Others\n The Extended-CharityDefense of Petitions\n A Defense of the Extended-CharityDefense\n Summary\n The Extended-CharityDefense of Intercessions\n Conclusion\n3: Are You There, God? It’s Me, the Theist: On the Viability and Virtue of Non-Doxastic Prayer\n Introduction\n A Working Definition of Theistic Prayer\n Forms and Functions of Theistic Prayer\n Contemplative Prayer: Oratio quaerens intellectum\n Ritualized Prayer: Orientation, Affirmation, and “Being For”\n Personal Prayer: Forging Intimacy\n “I and Thou”: Commitment, Imagination, and Prayerful Pretense\n Conclusion: The Virtues of Suspension\n4: Praying in the Name of Christ: Friedrich Schleiermacher’s “Mystical” Account of Prayer\n Introduction: An Analytic Theology of Prayer\n Prayer and Method\n Prayer “From Below”\n Prayer “From Above”\n A Third Way: Schleiermacher’s Alternative Method\n The “Mystical” Account of Prayer\n Schleiermacher’s Sermon on Prayer\n Schleiermacher’s Dogmatic Account of Prayer\n Remaining Challenges\n Conclusion\n5: Prayer as Complaint\n Introduction\n An Account of Prayer as Complaint\n Complaint and Intercession\n Two Potential Complications\n Coda\n6: Toward an Account of Lamenting Well\n Introduction\n A Brief Sketch of the Nature, and Some Dangers, of Analytic Theology\n The Nature of Lament\n Scriptural Lament\n The Character of Lament\n Lament and Hope\n Lament as Communal\n The Virtue of Lament\n Conclusion\n7: Theology in the Second Person: Christian Dogmatics as a Mode of Prayer\n Introduction\n An Ontology of Holy Scripture as Divine Speech\n Christian Dogmatics and the Second-PersonPerspective\n Karl Barth on Prayerful Dogmatics\n Prayer and Theological Habitude\n A Concluding Remark to Students of Divinity\n8: Does God Pray?\n9: Blessing God as Pledge of Allegiance: A Speech-Act Theoretic Approach\n Introduction\n Speech Act Theory\n Further Preliminaries\n The Opening Blessing as an Expressive IA\n The Opening Blessing as an Expressive IA of Awe\n The Opening Blessing as an Expressive IA of “the Optative”\n The Opening Blessing as an Assertive IA\n Acknowledging that God and God’s Kingdom are Blessed\n Acknowledging that God and God’s kingdom are the Minister’s Highest Value\n The Opening Blessing as a Commissive IA of Pledging Allegiance\n Conclusion\n10: Knowing as you are Known: Prayer in the Presence of God\n A Distinctively Christian Notion of Prayer\n Present by Faith\n Struggling in God’s Presence\n Application\n11: Prayer as the Road to Self-Knowledge\n Living on the Surface of Ourselves\n Transparency and Alienation\n Conclusion\n12: Prayer and the Meaning of Life\n Criteria of Meaningfulness from Philosophy\n Threats to Meaning\n Meaning of “Meaning”\n Monistic or Amalgam Normativity\n Objective and Subjective Meaning\n The Christian Meaning-MakingFramework and Prayer\n Meaning and Prayer in Conversation with Barth\n Prayer and Threats to Meaning\n Implications\n Conclusion\nIndex