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

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.