LE04　Christian Prayer according to <De oratione> of Tertullian and <De dominica> of St. Cyprian (2 credits)

Lecturer: Anna CHAN

Description:

Introduction

1. The Lord's Prayer in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke

2. The Lord's Prayer in Patristic Writings

Part One: The <De oratione> of Tertullian

1. The first part of the <De oratione> (cc. I-IX): the commentary on the Lord's Prayer

2. The second part of the <De oratione> (cc. IX-XXIX): the conditions of Christian Prayer

Part Two: The <De dominica oratione> of saint Cyprian

1. The requisite conditions of Christian prayer (cc. 1-8; 34-36)

2. The commentary on the Lord's Prayer (cc. 9-27)

Conclusion

Reference:

Primary sources

1. DIERCKS G.F. (ed.), Q.S.Fl. Tertulliani, De oratione (Cor- pus Christianorum, Series latina I) (Turnholti 1954) 255-274. 

2. MORESCHINI D. (ed.), Sancti Cypriani, De dominica oratione (Corpus Christianorum, Series latina I) (Turnholti 1976) 87- 113.

Studies

1. CHAN K.Y., Il Padre Nostro nei principali commenti patristici e il suo uso nella Liturgia romana (Romae 1993) [Dissertatio ad doctoratum Sacrae Liturgiae assedquendum in Pontificio Instituto Liturgico].

2. CHASE F.H., The Lord's Prayer in the Early Church (Texts and Studies. Contributions to Biblical and Patristic Literature, vol. 1, no. 3), ed. ROBINSON J.A. (Cambridge: Cambridge 1891) [Reprinted by permission of the original publisher Kraus Reprint Limited, Nendeln / Liechtenstein 1967]. 

3. GROSSI V. (a cura di), Tertulliano-Cipriano-Agostino, il Pa dre Nostro. Per un rinnovamento della catechesi sulla preghiera. Traduzione di Luigia Vicario (Roma: Bjorla 1980).

4. JEREMIAS J., Abba : Supplementi al grande lessico del Nuovo Testamento I, a cura di F. Montagnini-G. Scarpat-O. Soffritti (Brescia 1968). 

5. MIGLIORE D.L. (ed.), The Lord's Prayer. Perspectives for Reclaiming Chrisitian Prayer  (Michigan: Eerdmans 1993).

Note:

Not offered this year