Summary

This session reviewed several prayer texts from the third to the fifth century, and then probed the very practical ways they might challenge us to pray more deeply in worship today.

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Details

The session specifically touched on recent emerging church, "ancient-future" approaches to worship, but was designed with all kinds of congregations in mind.

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Presented at the 2008 Calvin Symposium on Worship.

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