Prayer in the Early Church

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Bibliographies

Monica Dorneich, The Lord's Prayer: A Bibliography. Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 1982. pp.240.

Primary Sources

	Aphraates, Demonstration 4
	Augustine, Letter 130 to Proba
	John Cassian, Conferences 9-10.
	Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies 7.6-7.
	Cyprian, On the Lord's Prayer.
	Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures 5.
	Evagrius Ponticus, De oratione.
	St. Gregory of Nyssa, The Lord's Prayer, The Beatitudes, H.C. Graef, translator. Ancient Christian Writers, Vol. 18. New York: Newman, 1954.
	James W. McKinnon, ed. Music in Early Christian Literature. Cambridge Readings in the Literature of Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pbk. ISBN: 0521376246. pp. xi + 180.
	Origen, On Prayer, E.G. Jay, Origen's Treatise on Prayer. London: SPCK, 1954.
	Serapion, Prayerbook, J. Wordsworth, Bishop Serapion's Prayerbook. London: SPCK, 1923.
	Tertullian, On Prayer.
	Theodore of Mopseustia, Catechetical Homily 11

Secondary Sources

	Paul F. Bradshaw, Daily Prayer in the Early Church. London: SPCK, 1981. Pbk. ISBN: 0281038279. pp. x + 191.
	Sebastian Brock, translator The Syriac Fathers on Prayer and the Spiritual Life. Cistercian Studies Series, 101. London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1988. Pbk. ISBN: 0879079010. pp.381.
	F. Cabrol, Liturgical Prayer. London: Burns, Oates and Washbourne, 1922.
	F.H. Chase, The Lords Prayer In The Early Church. Gorgias Press, 2004. Hbk. ISBN: 1593332750. pp.194.
	Agnes Cunningham, Prayer: Personal and Liturgical. Message of the Fathers of the Church Series, 16. Westminster: Glazier, 1985. Pbk. ISBN: 0814653278. pp.147.
	Forrester F. Chruch, & Terrence J. Mulry, The Macmillan Book of Earliest Prayers. New York: Macmillan, 1990. Pbk. ISBN: 0020310803. pp.256.
	Everett Ferguson, Early Christians Speak, 3rd edn. Abilene: ACU, 1987. Pbk. ISBN: 0891120459.
	A. Hamman, Early Christian Prayers. Chicago: Regnary, 1961.
	Simon Kistemaker, "Lord's prayer in the first century," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 21.4 (Dec. 1978): 323-328. Reprinted in Evangelical Review of Theology 3.2 (Oct. 1979): 323-328. pdf
	James Moffatt, "Tertullian on the Lord's Prayer," Expository Times 19 (1919): 24-41.
	L. Edward Phillips, "Daily Prayer in the Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus," Journal of Theological Studies 40.2 (1989): 389-400.
	Willy Rordorf, "The Lord's Prayer in the Light of its Liturgical Use in the Early Church," Studia Liturgica 14 (1980-1981): 1-19.
	R.L. Simpson, The Interpretation of Prayer in the Early Church. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1965.
	F.E. Vokes, "The Lord's Prayer in the First Three Centuries," F.L. Cross, ed. Studia Patristica X. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1970. pp.253-260.

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