Prayer has fallen on hard times theologically. Few modern systematic theology books deal with it in any meaningful fashion. The most extensive teaching on prayer that most seminaries give isn't much more than a chapter in a book on spiritual disciplines. While much attention had been given to doctrine, perhaps the chief outworking of doctrine, prayer, has been merely assumed. Prayer and the word are seldom separated from one another, but our modern theological focus has tended to neglect the former.This has not always been the case, however. Theologians of the past saw prayer as an essential practice and topic of theological attention. Reformation Prayer is a collection of teachings from early Protestant Reformation theologians regarding prayer such as Martin Luther, John Calvin and the Anglican homilies.

While their words are not new, their focus on prayer as a theological issue should serve to reorient our thinking. Reformation Prayer will reintroduce you to the importance of prayer in your life, both in theological understanding and theological practice.