- Collection:
- Interdenominational Theological Center Theses & Dissertations Collection
- Title:
- Developmental changes in attitudes and practices concerning prayer, a model for making one's prayer life more effective, 1985
- Creator:
- Davis, James Levert
- Date of Original:
- 1985-05-01
- Subject:
- Dissertations, Academic
Degrees, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- The assumption of this study is that God created human beings with the capacity for relationship with Himself. Prayer is a disposition and a potentiality for that relationship. Prayer becomes one of the tools by which we establish a relationship with God and God establishes an understandable relationship with us. The purpose of this project is to facilitate this relationship by helping others learn to effectively communicate with God through the process of prayer. The underlying principle is that the idea and need to pray starts with God. Prayer is so unique that comments about it is inevitable. But all such comments, no matter how well-informed, are always beset with limitations. J. Milton Yinger puts it best when he says, "Every man's discussion of prayer is at best only a shadow, a sketchy interpretation of the real encounter with God."
Date of award: 1985-05-01
Degree type: dissertation
Degree name: Doctor of Ministry (DMin)
Granting institution: Interdenominational Theological Center - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/itc.td:1985_davis_james_l
- Holding Institution:
- Interdenominational Theological Center (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Rights:
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