TERTULLIAN AND SAINT CYPRIAN ON PRAYER

Authors

  • Ana BACIU Lecturer PhD, Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: ana_baciu107@yahoo.com.

Keywords:

prayer, heavenly Father, evangelical teachings, Christianity, salvation

Abstract

Prayer is one of the renewing aspects of the Christian religion. It summarises the whole Gospel. St. Cyprian presents the evangelical precepts/teachings as the foundation of the path to salvation. Tertullian shows that prayer is considered by Christians offering spiritual sacrifices, which replaced the older offerings to the idols and pagan deities. Prayer is following the exhortation of the Saviour, for true worshipers, to worship God in the Holy Spirit and truth. Prayer teaches patience, suffering for the Lord; it helps to the removal of God's wrath, it helps watching and praying for enemies and persecutors, washing our sins, casting temptations, quenching persecutions, lifting the fall; it offers support for the weak, attack and defence weapons for Christians.

References

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Cyprian, Saint. Despre rugăciunea domnească. In Apologeţi de limbă latină. Translated by David Popescu, Părinţi şi Scriitori Bisericeşti 3. București: Editura Institutului Biblic şi de Misiune al Bisericii Ortodoxe Române, 1981.

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Réveillaud, Michel. Saint Cyprien, L’oraison dominicale. Paris, 1964.

Tertullian. Despre rugăciune. In Apologeţi de limbă latină. Translated by David Popescu. Părinţi şi Scriitori Bisericeşti 3. Bucureşti: Editura Institutului Biblic şi de Misiune al Bisericii Ortodoxe Române, 1981.

STUDIA UBB THEOLOGIA ORTHODOXA, Volume 61 (LXI), No. 2, December 2016

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2016-12-30

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BACIU, A. . (2016). TERTULLIAN AND SAINT CYPRIAN ON PRAYER. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Theologia Orthodoxa, 61(2), 83 –. Retrieved from http://193.231.18.162/index.php/subbtheologiaorthodoxa/article/view/4002

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