Ain’t too Proud to Beg: living through the Lord’s Prayer (127993)

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Karl Barth’s legendary image of preaching with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other now has a matching image for praying. In Ain’t Too Proud to Beg Telford Work encourages praying with a social documentary in one hand and the Lord’s Prayer in the other. The result is neither a commentary on the Lord’s Prayer nor a theology of prayer. Instead it is an exercise book that uses prayer to strengthen our theological muscles.

Ecumenical, evangelical, postmodern, and irenic in tone, Ain’t Too Proud to Beg ends not with a neat scholarly wrap-up but with an open-ended “Amen” — three sparkling, joyful sermons — a fitting ending to Work’s provocative exploration of prayer as a theological process.