Prayer in the Contemporary World

by Douglas V. Steere

Overview

Douglas Steere writes of the present work, "I have always believed that interior prayer is to religion what original research is to science. These thirty personal messages that move across the web of prayer – interweaving the unlimited liability that marks genuine commitment, the dimensions of a vital ecumenism, and the interior gathering that is nurtured by corporate worship – were all written at the close of Vatican Council II, when I lay in my bed at Haverford recovering from blood poisoning. Originally designed to be used as a month's preparation for the World Day of Prayer, they almost wrote themselves, and still seem undated enough to justify republication. I am grateful to Pendle Hill for returning them to circulation."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151440493
Publisher:	Pendle Hill Publications
Publication date:	04/27/2015
Series:	Pendle Hill Pamphlets , #291
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	113 KB

About the Author

Professor emeritus of philosophy at Haverford College, where he taught from 1928 to 1964, Douglas Steere is a noted author whose books include Prayer and Worship, On Beginning from Within, Work and Contemplation, Dimensions of Prayer, and Quaker Spirituality. His contributions both to Quakerism and to the world at large have been many. Long Clerk of the Pendle Hill Board of Managers, he has also headed the Friends World Committee for Consultation, and has carried out many missions in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, India, and Japan for the American Friends Service Committee. He represented the Religious Society of Friends as an observer-delegate at Vatican Council II, and has served both the National and the World Council of Churches.

He writes of the present work, “I have always believed that interior prayer is to religion what original research is to science. These thirty personal messages that move across the web of prayer – interweaving the unlimited liability that marks genuine commitment, the dimensions of a vital ecumenism, and the interior gathering that is nurtured by corporate worship – were all written at the close of Vatican Council II, when I lay in my bed at Haverford recovering from blood poisoning. Originally designed to be used as a month’s preparation for the World Day of Prayer, they almost wrote themselves, and still seem undated enough to justify republication. I am grateful to Pendle Hill for returning them to circulation.”