Teach Us to Pray
Praise for Teach Us to Pray
“The Lord’s Prayer has always been a microcosm of Christian prayer. In Teach Us to Pray, Katharine Mahon uses this first Christian prayer as a lens for the liturgical, catechetical, and devotional life of the late medieval and early modern periods. This exciting historical study reveals the unexpected common ground between Lutheran, Catholic, and Anglican challenges in lay liturgical participation and opens new pathways for thinking about ritual belonging and catechesis today.” —Kimberly Hope Belcher, University of Notre Dame
“In this significant book, Katharine Mahon opens up new angles for the study of liturgical history through a unique approach to the Lord’s Prayer and its embeddedness and influence on broader liturgical reforms and devotional practices. Mahon engages an exciting cross-confessional approach to the reform of devotional practice and how prayer is re-ritualized into life. Liturgical and devotional life are intricately interwoven with doctrinal issues in a fascinating study.” —Dirk G. Lange, Fredrik A. Schiotz chair of missions and professor of worship, Luther Seminary
“Mahon has provided us with a truly delightful and compelling study of ritual formation through catechesis, liturgy, and private prayer in sixteenth-century Lutheranism, Roman Catholicism, and Anglicanism via the lens of the Lord’s Prayer. This multi-disciplinary gem merits wide reading by liturgical scholars, catechists, and teachers of spirituality—in short, by all who are engaged with the process of forming Christians through ritual and forming Christians for ritual. Highly recommended!” —Maxwell E. Johnson, University of Notre Dame
Teach Us to Pray
The Lord’s Prayer, Catechesis, and Ritual Reform in the Sixteenth Century
Katharine Mahon
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About Teach Us to Pray: The Lord’s Prayer, Catechesis, and Ritual Reform in the Sixteenth Century
The study of liturgical reform is usually undertaken through a close examination of liturgical texts. In order to consider the impact of reform on the worship life of Christians, Katharine Mahon takes a wider view of liturgy by considering the worship practices of Christian churches beyond what appears in the rites themselves. Looking at how Christians were taught how to pray and instructed in liturgical and sacramental participation, Mahon explores the late medieval patterns of Christian ritual formation and the transformation of these patterns in the sixteenth-century reforms of Martin Luther, Thomas Cranmer, and Roman Catholic leaders. She uses the Lord’s Prayer—the backbone of medieval lay catechesis, liturgical participation, and private prayer—to paint a panorama of medieval ritual formation integrated into the life of the church in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. She then follows the disintegration and reconstruction of that system of formation through the changing functions of the Lord’s Prayer in the official reforms of catechesis, liturgy, and prayer in the sixteenth-century. |
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