THIS ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF KARL BARTH'S LECTURES ON THE LORD'S PRAYER, ALONG WITH SUPPLEMENTARY ESSAYS BY THREE BARTH SCHOLARS, INTRODUCES US TO WHAT THIS PREEMINENT THEOLOGIAN HAD TO SAY ABOUT THE CHRISTIAN PRACTICE OF PRAYER. UNDERSTANDING WORSHIP TO BE THE ULTIMATE AIM OF ALL THEOLOGY, BARTH HERE MINES THE THEOLOGICAL AND SPIRTUAL WISDOM OF LUTHER, CALVIN, AND THE HEIDELBERG CATECHISM AND URGES US TO PARTICIPATE IN THE WORK OF GOD THROUGH PRAYER.

This book collects for the first time John Calvin's teachings on prayer, taken from his 1559 classic Institutes of the Christian Religion. Calvin scholar John Hesselink puts Calvin's views in context with an introductory essay for the book. A summary and questions for discussion precede each segment of Calvin's text, making this volume ideal for personal and group study.

J. Todd Billings and I. John Hesselink have compiled an essential collection of essays for the study of John Calvin's theology. Leading Calvin scholars examine the early and late reception-history of Calvin's fundamental teachings, including reflections on the contemporary possibilities and limitations in developing Calvin's thought.

Contributors include Timothy Hessel-Robinson, Michael S. Horton, Mark Husbands, David Little, Suzanne McDonald, Jeannine E. Olson, Sue A. Rozeboom, and Carl R. Trueman.