Bibliography

I. Prayer

A selected bibliography compiled by Ernest Rubinstein, librarian of the Ecumenical Library, The Interchurch Center, New York, N.Y.

Used copies of out of print books, and of many in print books, are available through the search engines:

Thanks are due the librarians of Union Theological Seminary and New York Theological Seminary for providing access to their book stacks.

II. Biblical Resources for Prayer

In the New Testament alone, readers might consult the following passages for prayer instructions: Matt 6:5-8; Mark 11:22-28; Luke 11:1-13, 18:1-14; Col 4: 2-4; James 5:13-18; 1 Peter 3:12. Perhaps there has been no more influential source of prayer from the Old Testament than the book of Psalms; and no more widely known and practiced New Testament prayer than the Lord's Prayer.

III. General

Ballentine, Samuel. Prayer in the Hebrew Bible: The Drama of Divine Human Encounter. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993. 311 p. $21.00

Dowd, Sharyn Echols. Prayer, Power and the Problem of Suffering: Mark 11:22-25 in the Context of Markan Theology. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 1988. 186 p. $12.95

Fosdick, Harry Emerson. The Meaning of Prayer. Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon, 2003. 232 p. $14.00. [first published, 1915]

Fosua, Abena Safiyah. Jesus and Prayer. Nashville, Tenn: Abingdon Press, 2002. 104 p. $8.50

Koenig, John. Rediscovering New Testament Prayer: Boldness and Blessing in the Name of Jesus. Harrisburg, Penn.: Morehouse, 1992. 203 p. $15.95

Meehan, Bridget Mary. Praying with the Women of the Bible. Liguori, Mo.: Liguori, 1998. 159 p. $12.95

Miller, Patrick. They Cried to the Lord: Form and Theology of Biblical Prayer. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994. 464 p. $28.00

Ramsey, Michael. Be Still and Know: A Study in the Life of Prayer. Boston: Cowley, 1993. 108 p. $9.95 (originally published, 1983)

Roberts, Howard W. Praying Like Jesus. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 1999. 175 p. $15.95

IV. Psalms and the Lord's Prayer

Brueggemann, Walter. Praying the Psalms. Winona, Minn.: St. Mary's Press, 1993. 72p. $5.95

Endres, John C. and Elizabeth Liebert. A Retreat with the Psalms: Resources for Personal and Communal Prayer. Mahwah, N.J. : Paulist Pr, 2001. 254 p. $16.95

Kalajainen, Larry R. Psalms for the Journey: The Lord's Song in Ordinary Time. Nashville: Upper Room Books, 1996. 128 p. $10.00

Lewis, Thomas. Finding God: Praying the Psalms in Times of Depression. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster, 2002. 146 p. $7.00

Bondi, Roberta. A Place to Pray: Reflections on the Lord's Prayer. Nashville: Abingdon, 1998. 144 p. $17.00

Coburn, John B. Deliver us from Evil: the Prayer of Our Lord. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1984. 96 p. $4.95

Crosby, Michael H. Thy Will Be Done: Praying the Our Father as Subversive Activity. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1977. 254 p. Out of print.

Douglas-Klotz, Neil. Prayers of the Cosmos: Meditations on the Aramaic Words of Jesus. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1990. 112 p. $13.00

Mulholland, James. Praying Like Jesus: The Lord's Prayer in a Culture of Prosperity. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2001. 133 p. $14.95

Raphael, Pierre. God Behind Bars: A Prison Chaplain Reflects on the Lord's Prayer. Mahway, N.J.: Paulist, 1999. 144 p. $10.95

Stevenson, Kenneth. Abba, Father: Understanding and Using the Lord's Prayer. Harrisburg, Penn.: Morehouse, 2001. 202 p. $17.95

V. Studies on Prayer

James, William The Varieties of Religious Experience. Touchstone Books, 1997. 416 p. $8.00 [first published, 1902]

Perspectives on Prayer, ed. by Fraser Watts. London: SPCK, 2001. 128 p. $15.00

Prayer from Alexander to Constantine: A Critical Anthology. Edited by Mark Kiley. New York: Routledge, 1997. 332 p. $29.95

Praying with Power. Ed. by Joe Aldred. New York: Continuum, 2000. 160 p. $16.95

VI. Guides to Praying

Bondi, Roberta C. In Ordinary Time: Healing the Wounds of the Heart. Nashville: Abingdon, 1996. 205 p. $17.00

Castelli, Jim. How I Pray. New York: Ballentine, 1994. 188 p. $15.00

Clare, Mary. Encountering the Depths: Prayer, Solitude, and Contemplation. Harrisburg, Penn: Morehouse, 1995. 112 p. $9.95

Fiand, Barbara. Prayer and the Quest for Healing: Our Personal Transformation and Cosmic Responsibility. New York: Crossroad, 1999. 178 p. $14.95

Forest, Jim. Praying with Icons. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1997. 171 p. $16.00

Grumbach, Doris. Presence of Absence: On Prayer and an Epiphany. Boston: Beacon, 1998. 126 p. $18.00

Hamlin, Rick. Finding God on the A-Train: A Journey into Prayer. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1997. 152 p. $10.00

Keating, Charles J. Who We Are Is How We Pray: Matching Personality and Spirituality. Mystic, Conn.: Twenty-Third Publications, 1987. 147 p. $9.95

Keating, Thomas. Intimacy with God: An Introduction to Centering Prayer. New York: Crossroad, 1994. 167 p. $13.95

Killinger, John. Beginning Prayer. Nashville, Tenn.: Upper Room, 1993. 107 p. $9.00

McClain, George. Claiming all Things for God: Prayer, Discernment and Ritual for Social Change. Nashville: Abingdon, 1998. 152 p. $13.00

McPherson, C. W. Keeping Silence: Christian Practices for Entering Stillness. Harrisburg, Pa.: Morehouse, 2002. 96 p. $12.95

Meehan, Bridget Mary and Regina Madonna Oliver. Praying with a Passionate Heart. Liguori, Mo.: Liguori, 1999. 110 p. $12.95

Merton, Thomas. New Seeds of Contemplation. New York: New Directions, 1974. 297 p. $12.95 [first published, 1962]

Norris, Kathleen. The Cloister Walk. New York: Berkley Publishing Group, 1996. 385 p. $12.95

Nouwen, Henri J. M. With Open Hands. Notre Dame, Ind.: Ave Maria Press, 1995. 132 p. $12.95

Pennington, Basil. Centering Prayer: Renewing an Ancient Christian Prayer Form. New York: Doubleday, 1982. 188 p. $9.95

Proctor-Smith, Marjorie. Praying with our Eyes Open: Engendering Feminist Liturgical Prayer. Nashville: Abingdon, 1995. 176 p. $17.00

Rhude, Beth E. Live the Questions Now: The Interior Life. [New York]: Women's Division, Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church, 1980. 168 p. Out of print [many used copies available through http://www.bookfinder.com]

Steere, Douglas. Dimensions of Prayer: Cultivating a Relationship with God. Nashville, Tenn.: Upper Room Books, 2002. 128 p. $12.00 [originally published, 1962]

Vennard, Jane. Embracing the World: Praying for Justice and Peace. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003. 145 p. $18.95

Wuellner, Flora Slossan. Prayer and Our Bodies. Nashville, Tenn: Abingdon, 1987. 144 p. $12.00

VII. Methodist traditions of prayer

Council of Bishops of the United Methodist Church. Vital Congregations, Faithful Disciples: Vision for the Church. Nashville, Tenn: Graded Press, 1990. 160 p. [Out of print]

DeSilva, David A. Praying with John Wesley. Nashville, Tenn.: Discipleship Resources, 2001. 48 p. $7.95

Job, Reuben. A Wesleyan Spiritual Reader. Nashville: Abingdon, 1997. 216 p. $15.00

Kimbrough, S. T. Lost in Wonder: Charles Wesley, the Meaning of His Hymns Today. Nashville, Tenn.: Upper Room, 1987. 176 p.

Knight, Henry H. Eight Life-Enriching Practices of United Methodists. Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon, 2001. 136 p. $6.50

McMullen, Michael. Hearts Aflame: Prayers of Susanna, John, and Charles Wesley. London: SPCK, 2000. 144 p. $9.00 [distributed by Pilgrim Press, Cleveland, Ohio]

IIX. Ecumenical and Interfaith prayer

Bowman, Gail. Praying the Sacred in Secular Settings. St. Louis, Mo.: Chalice, 2000. 111 p. $14.99

Carmody, Denise Lardner and John Tully Carmody. Prayer in World Religions. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1990. 168 p. $14.00

Castro, Emilio. When We Pray Together. Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1989. 86 p. $8.50

Cox, Harvey. Common Prayers: Faith, Family, and a Christian's Journey through the Jewish Year. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. 305 p. $13.00

Foerster, L. Annie. For Praying Out Loud: Interfaith Prayers for Public Occasions. Boston: Skinner House, 2003. 150 p. $14.00

Green, Michael and Coleman Barks. The Illuminated Prayer: The Five-Times Prayer of the Sufi. New York: Ballentine Publishing, 2000. 144 p. $18.95

Praying with Jewish Tradition. Compiled by Elias Kopciowski. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1997. 134 p. $9.95

Shannon, Maggie Oman. The Way We Pray: Prayer Practices from Around the World. York Beach, Maine: Conari Press, 2001. 220 p. $15.95

Steere, Douglas. Prayer in the Contemporary World. Wallingsford, Penn: Pendle Hill, 1990. 32 p. $4.00 [free at http://www.pendlehill.org/pendle_hill_pamphlets.htm]

IX. Prayer Anthologies

An African Prayer Book, ed. by Bp. Desmond Tutu. New York: Doubleday, 1995. 139 p. $21.00

Barclay, William. A Barclay Prayer Book. Louisville, Ky: Westminster Press, 2003. 350 p. $14.95

The Book of Mystical Chapters: Meditations on the Soul's Ascent, from the Desert Fathers and other Early Christian Contemplatives. Translated and introduced by John Anthony McGuckin. Boston: Shambhala, 2002. 215 p. $19.95

Brueggemann, Walter. Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth: Prayers of Walter Brueggemann. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2003. 176 p. $14.00

Conversations with God: Two Centuries of Prayers by African Americans. Ed. by James Melvin Washington. New York: HarperCollins, 1994. 347 p. $15.00

Dare to Dream: A Prayer and Worship Anthology from Around the World, ed. by Geoffrey Duncan. London: Fount Paperbacks, 1995. 250 p. [out of print]

Every Eye Beholds You: A World Treasury of Prayer. Ed. by Thomas J. Craughwell. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1998. 320 p. $25.00

The Flowering of the Soul: A Book of Prayers by Women. Ed. by Lucinda Vardey. Boston: Beacon Press, 2002. 400 p. $16.00

Gift of Prayer: A Treasury of Personal Prayer from the World's Spiritual Traditions. New York: Continuum, 1997. 274 p. $12.95

L'Engle, Madeleine and Luci Shaw. A Prayerbook for Spiritual Friends: Partners in Prayer. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1999. 96 p. $10.99

Peace Prayers: Meditations, Affirmations, Invocations, Poems, and Prayers for Peace, ed. by the staff of Harper San Francisco. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992. 144 p. $10.00

Prayers Encircling the World: An International Anthology. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Pr, 1998. 278 p. $15.00

2000 Years of Prayer. Compiled by Michael Counsell. Harrisburg, Penn.: Morehouse, 2002. 672 p. $24.00

WomanPrayers: Prayers from Women from throughout History and around the World. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2003. 224 p. $19.95