Thy Will Be Done

The 2021 Lent Book

Stephen Cherry

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Bloomsbury Continuum
05 January 2021

Christian prayer; Christian spirituality & religious experience; Christian life & practice

The 2021 Lent Book takes the Lord’s Prayer as a basis for Lenten reflection.

At a time of change, uncertainty and widespread anxiety, we need to discover again the freshness of our most familiar spiritual resources. Stephen Cherry’s Lent Book does exactly this by inviting the reader to immerse themselves in the most central, important and iconic of Christian prayers – the Lord’s Prayer, the Our Father.

Mining the tradition for wisdom and insight, and finding inspiration in the theologians of the past such as St Paul, Gregory of Nyssa, John Calvin, but also more contemporary voices such as Evelyn Underhill, Simone Weil, and Michelle Obama, Thy Will Be Done presents the comforts and challenges of the prayer in 36 short chapters.

This most accessible Lent Book, rich in anecdote as well as analysis, is daily bread for the spiritually hungry.

By: Stephen Cherry
Imprint: Bloomsbury Continuum
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
Weight: 186g
ISBN: 9781472978257
ISBN 10: 1472978250
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 05 January 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction PART ONE: HEAVEN 1 The shape of the prayer 2 Motherly Father 3 Our Father 4 The problem of patriarchy 5 Who art in heaven 6 Hallowed be thy name PART TWO: EARTH 7 On earth as it is in heaven 8 God's kingdom 9 The parable of the delayed train 10 Kingdom - really? 11 The kin-dom of God 12 What the prayer is not PART THREE: BREAD 13 Bread and wisdom 14 Bread and justice 15 Daily bread 16 Day by day 17 Bread, and yet more bread 18 Manna-mentality and the foodie generation PART FOUR: FORGIVENESS 19 As we forgive 20 Weird Christian thinking 21 What exactly needs to be forgiven? 22 The trouble with sin 23 Divine pardon and human forgiveness 24 Grace in forgiving PART FIVE: TEMPTATION 25 Avoiding temptation 26 Lead us not 27 Temptation, test or trial? 28 The Evil One 29 Focused negativity 30 Test by virus PART SIX: GLORY 31 The doxology from the Didache 32 Ultimate fulfilment 33 Power - but what sort? 34 Glory 35 Amen 36 Thy will be done Notes

Dr Stephen Cherry is the Dean of King’s College Cambridge and its Director of Studies in Theology, Religion and Philosophy of Religion. He previous books include The Dark Side of the Soul, Healing Agony and Barefoot Disciple.