Friday, December 6, 2013

Logan Miller - Alienation through Liberation (Phenomenology of Prayer)

Logan Miller
Essay 11: Alienation through Liberation (Phenomenology of Prayer)

            Benjamin Crowe states that the hermeneutics of prayer make certain claims about our present and about our future. The first being that prayer out to be an expression of a Christian’s alienation from the world of sin and death. The second is that prayer ought to be a joyous response to an experienced liberation from all forms of slavery. Ultimately, prayer should express a new orientation that life has been set free. I agree with all of these statements. Christians are called to live separately from the world and the acknowledgements through prayer of the alienation allow one to incorporate it further into his or her life. Additionally, if Christianity is alienated from the rest of the world by its liberation for the failures of the world in a sense of longevity, that there is hope, then prayer should reflect that.



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