Prayer.
The article offers information related to the archaisms in diction and syntax of a prayer. Topics discussed include invocation, an invitation, and an exclamation of praise in prayers; anxiety about prayerly deficiencies shadow sixteenth and seventeenth century debates about prayer; and unknowable ga...
| Published in: | New Literary History Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 357 - 362 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Summer2019
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| Summary: | The article offers information related to the archaisms in diction and syntax of a prayer. Topics discussed include invocation, an invitation, and an exclamation of praise in prayers; anxiety about prayerly deficiencies shadow sixteenth and seventeenth century debates about prayer; and unknowable gap between human action and divine interpretation that is a tension at the heart of both the ideology and practice of prayer. |
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