prayer | Theology and Ethics https://www.theologyethics.com Resources and reflections on theology and ethics Wed, 14 Mar 2018 18:59:21 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Prayer: A case study in mimetic anthropology (Alison, 2009) https://www.theologyethics.com/2014/04/03/prayer-a-case-study-in-mimetic-anthropology-alison-2009/ https://www.theologyethics.com/2014/04/03/prayer-a-case-study-in-mimetic-anthropology-alison-2009/#respond Thu, 03 Apr 2014 15:50:25 +0000 http://www.theologyethics.com/?p=4680 One of the strangest features of that weirdly under-religious collection of texts known as the New Testament is how little there is in it on prayer. In fact, given that almsgiving, prayer and fasting are usually the visible pillars of what we call “religion”, it is odd how little the New Testament attends to any of them. The only place where all three are treated with something like rigour is in the first eighteen verses of the sixth chapter of St Matthew’s Gospel. And there they undergo, as I hope to show you, what appears to be a gross relativisation. They are completely subordinated to, and reinterpreted by, a penetrating understanding of the working of desire.

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