Prayer Book of the Early Christians

By (author) John A. McGuckin

$22.00

ISBN: 9781640600065
Trim size: 6 x 8.75 inches
Weight: 11.2 ounces.
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 01 Aug 2017
Product ID: 00065

Formats:

Paperback

Designed for any 21st-century Christian, this prayer book gathers prayers and rituals from the ancient Church (especially early Greek Christianity), re-presenting them for the use of Christians at home, in small prayer groups, cohorts, and house churches. It offers a structure of prayer offices and blessing rituals for all times of day and year, and articulates many religious needs including bereavement, house blessing, praise, worry, gratitude, and thanksgiving.

Reviews

“Fr. John has done a great service to Christians everywhere by making the prayers of the early church available, particularly in such beautiful and accessible language. As we turn these pages we join with the saints of all ages in a united hymn of praise.” —Frederica Mathewes-Green, author of Welcome to the Orthodox Church and The Illumined Heart

“For being such a slim volume, this book is heavy with the weight of glory. The Prayer Book of the Early Christians is a collection of prayers and prayer services modeled after the liturgies left to us from the ancient Church and used today in the Eastern Orthodox tradition. And having drawn from such deep wells, this prayer book presents its reader/user/pray-er with a treasury of ‘prayers that have been tried and proved’ (p. ix)...Showing devotion through our actions, especially when our hearts don’t want to do so, can be one way to cultivate the heart’s participation in prayer. Over time, the disciplined practice of these prayers will yield the fruit of an inner disposition of fear, reverence, and deep love of God.” —Christopher Brown, pastor, writer, and musician

Author Bio

John A. McGuckin is an Orthodox Christian scholar, priest, and poet. He is the Nielsen Professor in Early Church History at Union Theological Seminary, professor of Byzantine Christian Studies at Columbia University, a Stavrophore priest of the Orthodox Church (Patriarchate of Romania) who came to New York from England in 1997, and the author of many books.