The reformation of prayer among sixteenth-century Lutherans / Mary Jane Haemig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haemig, Mary Jane, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.

Luther, Martin.

Prayer--Lutheran Church--History--16th century.

Prayer.

Lutheran Church--History--16th century.

Lutheran Church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the theological underpinnings for prayer, as well as the strategies and literature used by Luther and his followers as they taught prayer to all people. The reformation of prayer has not been adequately studied; this book seeks to address that gap.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction

Notes

1 Martin Luther and the Reform of Prayer

Late Medieval Prayer

Martin Luther's Efforts to Reform and Teach Prayer

Critique of Medieval Beliefs and Practices

Luther's Emphases

God's own words-God's command and God's promise-are the basis for prayer

Prayer is a good work, one that flows from faith

Humans are to pray for both spiritual and bodily needs

The language of prayer should be bold, honest, and forthright

Prayer may try to change God's intention-and may succeed at doing that

It is false teaching to claim that prayer is useless (or not necessary) because God had already predestined all things

Be persistent in prayer-but not mindlessly repetitious

Prayer should take place in every time of need-and at regular times

Prayer does not replace action but rather enables and includes action

Some Theological Implications: Luther's Teaching on Prayer Fit into his Entire Way of Thinking

Luther's Efforts to Teach Prayer: Cultivating the Reconstructed Pious Life

The Importance of Varied Genres

Forms, Structures, and Patterns for Prayer

Success?

Other Reformers and Prayer

Concluding Thoughts

2 Teaching Prayer with Catechisms and Catechesis

Efforts to Teach Prayer in Catechisms in the 1520s

Luther's Small Catechism and Large Catechism

Other Catechisms

Catechetical Sermons

Catechetical Hymns

3 Teaching Prayer with the Psalms

Martin Luther and the Psalms

Luther's Preface to the Psalms and the Summaries

Other Works Using the Psalms to Teach, Encourage, and Support Prayer

Summaries

Thematic Rearrangements

Paraphrases

Verse, Rhyme, and Song

Prayerbooks

Catechisms

Sermons

Commentaries

Polemics.

Especially for Women

Psalters in Latin

Reception

4 Teaching Prayer with Prayerbooks

Luther's Prayerbooks

Lutheran Prayerbooks after Luther

Explicit Instruction in and Encouragement for Prayer

Content and Language

Occasions and Vocations

Intended Audiences

Interactions and Influences-in Which Ways?

5 Teaching Prayer with Sermons

Teaching Prayer on the Fifth Sunday after Easter: Rogate or Vocem Iocunditatis

Organization and Themes

God's Command and Promise

The Proper Addressee for Prayer

Faith

Praying for Bodily and Spiritual Needs

Results Anticipated

Beliefs and Practices Rejected

Little Specific Advice on Practice

Mid-Sixteenth-Century Roman Catholic Sermons for Rogation

Teaching Prayer Throughout the Church Year: The Example of Corvinus' Postil

Sermons with Prayer as the Sole or Chief Topic

Prayer in Other Sermons

Contexts and Attitudes for Prayer

Occasions for Prayer

Content of Prayer

God's Response to Prayer

Criticism of Problematic Prayer Practices

Roman Catholic Preaching on Prayer Throughout the Church Year

6 Teaching Prayer in Worship

Presence of Prayer in Worship

The Teaching of Prayer in and through Worship

Worship Space

Worship Outside the Church Building

7 Teaching Prayer with the Literature of Consolation

Illness and Death

Plague

Childbirth

War

8 Teaching Prayer to and with Pastors

Instruction for Theological Students

Melanchthon's Examination

Prayer in the Life and Ministry of the Pastor

Pastoral Handbooks

Church Orders

Parish and Pastoral Libraries

Conclusion.

Significance for Reformation Studies: Some Thoughts on Further Work

Abbreviations

Bibliography

Person Index

Subject Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 13, 2025).

ISBN:

0-19-894877-8

0-19-894875-1

OCLC:

1506569401