Analyzing Prayer

Oliver D. Crisp is the Professor of Analytic Theology and Director of the Logos Institute for Analytic and Exegetical Theology. He joined the Divinity School in the autumn of 2019, having previously taught at Fuller Theological Seminary in California (2011-2019), the University of Bristol (2006-2011), and St Andrews (2002-2004). He has also held postdoctoral research fellowships at the Center for Philosophy of Religion, University of Notre Dame (2004-5; 2019), and the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton (2008-9). Crisp is the author of over a dozen books and over a hundred journal articles.James M. Arcadi is Associate Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, USA. He is author of An Incarnational Model of the Eucharist (2018), co-author of The Nature and Promise of Analytic Theology (2019), and author of essays in such journals as Scottish Journal of Theology, Religious Studies, and Journal of Theological Interpretation. He is co-editor of Love: Divine and Human: Contemporary Essays in Systematic and Philosophical Theology (2019) and The T&T Clark Handbook of Analytic Theology (2021). Ordained in the Anglican Church in North America, he has served in parishes in Massachusetts, California, and Illinois.Jordan Wessling is Assistant Professor of Religion at Lindsey Wilson College. His articles have appeared in journals such as the International Journal of Systematic Theology, Faith & Philosophy, Zygon, Theology and Science, and the International Journal of Philosophy of Religion. His book, Love Divine: A Systematic Account of God's Love for Humanity, was published by Oxford University Press in 2021, and, with Oliver Crisp and James Arcadi, he authored The Nature and Promise of Analytic Theology (2019) and edited Love, Divine and Human: Contemporary Essays in Systematic and Philosophical Theology (2019).

This volume (Analyzing Prayer) therefore constitutes a deepening of analytic theology's theological breadth and depth, and covers useful ground with separate chapters on intercession, lament, prayer's relationship to dogmatics, God's prayer, and other significant topics.

• Oliver D. Crisp: Introduction 1: Scott Davison: Petitionary Prayer and Pride 2: Jordan Wessling: Interceding for the Lost: On the Effectiveness of Petitioning God for Human Salvation 3: Amber Griffioen: Are You There, God? It's Me, the Theist: On the Viability and Virtue of Non-Doxastic Prayer 4: James R. Gordon: Praying in the Name of Christ: Friedrich Schleiermacher's 'Mystical' Account of Prayer 5: Oliver D. Crisp: Prayer as Complaint 6: Kevin Timpe: Toward an Account of Lamenting Well 7: Ross Inman: Theology in the Second Person: Christian Dogmatics as a Mode of Prayer 8: Katherine Sonderegger: Does God Pray? 9: James M. Arcadi: Blessing God as Pledge of Allegiance: A Speech Act Theoretic Approach 10: Kyle Strobel: Knowing as you are Known: Prayer in the Presence of God 11: Adam Green: Prayer as the Road to Self-Knowledge 12: Jason McMartin: Prayer and the Meaning of Life