The Prayer That Jesus Taught Us

by Crosby, Michael H.

• ISBN13: 9781570754098
• ISBN10: 1570754098
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Orbis Books

Author Biography

Michael H. Crosby, a Capuchin-Franciscan priest, is a popular writer and lecturer. He is the author of many books. He gives talks around the world on biblical spirituality and corporate responsibility. Fr. Crosby lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Interpreting the Text from the Context	xi
Jesus' Prayer as the Original Antiestablishment Household Prayer	xiii
Jesus' Official Prayer	1	(25)
Contrasting the Matthean and Lukan Versions of Jesus' Prayer	3	(1)
Justice at the Heart of Matthew's Gospel	4	(3)
Matthean Prayer as Subversive	7	(3)
Why the Secrecy Connected to Jesus' Prayer?	10	(2)
Reasons Why Such a Now-Public Prayer Once Was Offered in Such Secrecy	12	(6)
Contemporary Prayer and the Embrace of Empire	18	(2)
Jesus' Prayer as the Public Promotion of Justice in a World of Injustice	20	(6)
Our Father in Heaven	26	(18)
God as a Trinitarian Household (Oikonomia) of Persons, Relations, and Resources	29	(1)
Who Is This One Called ``Father'' That We Claim as Our Own?	30	(6)
What Does It Mean to Call God ``Ours''?	36	(4)
Where on Earth Is Our Father in Heaven?	40	(4)
On Earth as It Is in Heaven	44	(16)
Faith about the Heavens and God's Role on Earth	45	(1)
Exousia: The Power of God at the Core of Heaven and Earth	46	(4)
The God of the Heavens and Earth and the God of the Empire's Earth and Heavens	50	(3)
How the Earth and Our Prayer Are Being Challenged by Globalization	53	(3)
How the Heavens and Our Prayer Are Being Challenged by Environmental Degradation	56	(2)
On Earth, or Only in Heaven?	58	(2)
Hallowed Be Your Name on Earth as It Is in Heaven	60	(24)
Holiness in the Hebrew Scriptures	62	(2)
Leviticus 19: Holiness as Separation vs. Holiness as Mercy	64	(9)
Isaiah 6:1--13: Human Holiness as the Effort to Transform Whatever Profanes God's Holiness	73	(3)
Making God's Name Holy on Earth as It Is in Heaven	76	(8)
Your Kin(g)dom Come on Earth as It Is in Heaven	84	(18)
Jesus' Preaching of the Inbreaking of God's Kingdom	85	(2)
God's Kingdom = God's Kingdom	87	(3)
God's Kindom Contrasted to That of Religion and Society, Church and Culture	90	(6)
A Spirituality of Exile	96	(1)
Parables of the Kingdom: Jesus' Exilic Way of Subverting His Religion and His World	97	(5)
Your Will Be Done on Earth as It Is in Heaven	102	(17)
``God's Will'' and the Support of Violence	104	(2)
How Is God's Will to Be Done on Earth as It Is in Heaven?	106	(2)
The ``Will of the Father'' in Matthew	108	(2)
The Story of the Rich Young Man	110	(2)
God's Will and the Rejection of Violence	112	(7)
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread	119	(20)
The Bread That All of Us Need Each Day	120	(1)
Our Dependency on God	121	(3)
Our Interdependency with Each Other	124	(2)
Living One Day at a Time	126	(4)
The Antithesis of Contemporary Capitalism	130	(5)
The Need in Our Church and Society for Compassion	135	(4)
Forgive Us Our Debts as We Forgive Those Who Trespass against Us	139	(21)
Forgiveness of Debts in a Culture Defined by Patron/Client Relationships	139	(2)
The Parable of the Reign of God and the Merciless Official	141	(4)
What Does It Mean to ``Forgive Your Brother or Sister from Your Heart''?	145	(7)
Compassionate Release and Debt Forgiveness as the Way of Jubilee	152	(2)
Forgiveness of Debts Accompanied by a Repentance That Makes Things Right	154	(6)
Lead Us Not into Temptation but Deliver Us from Evil	160	(23)
Probing the Text to Understand Its Context	161	(6)
``The Triumph of American Materialism''	167	(4)
Conversion according to Madison Avenue and to Matthew's Jesus	171	(7)
Matthew's Household Codes and the Need for New Households of Faith	178	(5)
Notes	183	(12)
Scripture Index	195	(5)
General Index	200