Thesis (S.T.L.)--Catholic University of America, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 142-147).

As "Prayer in the Old Testament" is a very wide subject, I have restricted myself to outlines on certain themes. In a sense the whole Bible can be described as "prayer" since it is a dialogue of man with God, and God with man. Obviously the word with which to attempt any definition of prayer is the Hithpa'el verb (?)and its noun (?). It describes speech with God. As the Hebrew poetic device of parallelism offers us synonyms to (?) we examine those words with much the same general definition. There are other words which the Hebrew concordance reveals as being translated as "prayer", or as describing prayer. Most of these words are the ordinary words for speech. The words for prayer, in general, describe speech before God. With this wide definition Chapter Two groups the various kinds of speech before God, and attempts to describe each. Prayer is seen as dialogue, as asking, and as praise and thanksgiving. Prayer, however, does not exist in a vacuum. It cannot be separated from the people who pray and the God who makes prayer possible. Personalities of prayer give prayer meaning, purpose and dynamic. Looking at their prayers in context enables us to grasp a little more fully the role of prayer in life itself. As God provides the framework of prayer we must also look at that framework. He determines what kind of prayers are acceptable. He gives direction and power to the words of prayer. Without God, prayer is either magic or meaningless words. In the final chapter I try to tie up some of the loose ends. Prayer is not just an isolated and individual thing it exists within the cult and the community. Certain disciplines accompany it.

鄒潔梅. / "2002年6月" / 論文 (神道學碩士)--香港中文大學, 2002. / 參考文獻 (leaves 35) / 附中英文摘要. / "2002 nian 6 yue" / Zou Jiemei. / Lun wen (shen dao xue shuo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2002. / Can kao wen xian (leaves 35) / Fu Zhong Ying wen zhai yao. / Chapter 一. --- 導言 --- p.1-3 / Chapter 二. --- 簡介盧雲 --- p.4-7 / Chapter 三. --- 盧雲對祈禱的論述 --- p.8-9 / Chapter 3.1 --- 祈禱的起始點和最終目標一愛神 --- p.10 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- 祈禱是以神爲中心的對話 --- p.10 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- 祈禱是全人向神開放 --- p.10-11 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- 祈禱是讓神在我們裏面呼吸 --- p.11-12 / Chapter 3.1.4 --- 祈禱是爲神創建讓人改變的空間 --- p.12-13 / Chapter 3.2 --- 祈禱的必然果效-…愛己愛人 --- p.13 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- 祈禱是與神一起愛己 --- p.13-15 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- 祈禱是與神一起探索前路 --- p.15-16 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- 祈禱是與神一起愛人 --- p.16-17 / Chapter 3.3 --- 小結 --- p.17 / Chapter 四. --- 祈禱是冒險的心路歷程 --- p.18-19 / Chapter 4.1 --- 從緊握雙拳至空舒雙手 --- p.19 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- 當所緊握的是負面的事物 --- p.19-20 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- 當緊握的是正面的事物 --- p.20-22 / Chapter 4.2 --- 讓祈禱成爲生命的全部 --- p.22 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- 在人際關係上保留私人空間的必要 --- p.22-23 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- 在人神關係上保留私人空間的普遍性 --- p.23 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- 不止息的祈禱 --- p.23-25 / Chapter 4.3 --- 讓愛除去恐懼、融合痛苦 --- p.25 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- 祈禱是恐懼與愛的交戰 --- p.26 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- 祈禱是痛苦與愛的交融 --- p.26-27 / Chapter 4.4 --- 成爲代禱者的挑戰 --- p.27-29 / Chapter 4.5 --- 小結 --- p.29 / Chapter 五. --- 冒險的動力和目標 --- p.30 / Chapter 5.1 --- 盧雲冒險的祈禱歷程 --- p.30-32 / Chapter 5.2 --- 盧雲具影響力的生命 --- p.32-33 / Chapter 六. --- 結語 --- p.34 / Chapter 七. --- 參考書目 --- p.35

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2003. / Thesis directed by Harold W. Attridge and Mary Rose D'Angelo for the Department of Theology. "December 2003." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 284-301).

Catholic writers traditionally approach the laity through the sacraments rather than the Word. Nonetheless, three devotional genres - meditation, hagiography and catechism - recognize that effective written appeals to a reader can be made using rhetoric. This thesis analyses such rhetoric, in recusant devotional texts published by secret presses between 1580 and 1603. Most detailed examinations of Catholic works think of rhetoric as emasculating the virile yet chaste prose of a 'shining band of martyrs'. This thesis proposes that the rules of rhetoric are used to empower the reader of these works by Grafting a new character in him. Meditations act as deliberative orations, swaying the reader's will. They use amplificatio and memoria to produce matter and to dwell on it. Late sixteenth-century translations of continental meditation manuals by Granada, Scupoli, Estella and Loarte provide a theory of meditation for the English works studied: rosary texts by John Bucke, Thomas Worthington and Henry Garnet; several anonymous collections of meditations and prayers; contemplations on Scriptural stories by Robert Southwell, I.C., C.N. and Robert Chambers. In the second section, saints' lives are read as rhetorical examples which support this deliberative discourse, rather than as blazons, innocent of intent on the reader. Hagiographies by Worthington, Robert Persons, William Alien and Thorns Alfield reflect images of what a martyr or saint should do, not what he did. The last chapters show how catechisms recreate these idealized images in the reader by acting as dramatic scripts for him. Repetition through rhetoric dissolves the element of theatre, allowing the reader to absorb these rules for life. Once again, Elizabethan translations of foreign catechisms by Granada, Bellarmine and Canisius are used to illuminate English catechisms by Persons, Southwell and Lawrence Vaux.

Thesis (S.T.L.)--Catholic University of America, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 163-170).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Erskine Theological Seminary, 2001. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 140-142).

Thesis (M.A.)--Acadia University, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 126-132). Also available on the Internet via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Erskine Theological Seminary, 2001. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 140-142).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Erskine Theological Seminary, 2001. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 140-142).