YOURS IS THE KINGDOM
A systematic theology of the Lord’s Prayer
By Gerald Bray. IVP. 206 pages. £9.99
ISBN 978-1-84474-209-7
I wish I could commend this book, and came to it expecting to do so; I’ve admired several of Bray’s trenchant editorials in the Anglican journal Churchman. But I’m afraid I just cannot, though it says many good things. Why not?
Well, for one thing Bray tries to treat the prayer as a systematic theology more than a prayer: ‘I have become convinced that it is essentially an embryonic form of systematic theology’ (page 8). Of course there’s theology in it, but it isn’t a systematic theology, it’s a prayer.
