Bruce Ellis Benson is Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University.Norman Wirzba is Professor of Theology and Ecology at Duke University's Divinity School and Research Professor of Theology and Ecology at Duke's Nicholas School for the Environment.

"This collection of seventeen papers deals with Christian and Jewish prayer from a philosophical perspective..." -International Review of Biblical Studies "The volume is effective, no doubt, because the analysis of prayer flows at least, in part, out of the practices of prayer; in which case what we have here is not just an intracontinental philosophical discussion but, unexpectedly and pleasantly so, an ecumenical forum of prayerful performances." -Religious Studies Review

Bruce Ellis Benson is Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University.Norman Wirzba is Professor of Theology and Ecology at Duke University's Divinity School and Research Professor of Theology and Ecology at Duke's Nicholas School for the Environment.

"This collection of seventeen papers deals with Christian and Jewish prayer from a philosophical perspective..." -International Review of Biblical Studies "The volume is effective, no doubt, because the analysis of prayer flows at least, in part, out of the practices of prayer; in which case what we have here is not just an intracontinental philosophical discussion but, unexpectedly and pleasantly so, an ecumenical forum of prayerful performances." -Religious Studies Review