Reconstructing Prayer: Beyond Deconstructing Your Faith

In the West, many Christians are "deconstructing" and/or "doubting" their faith. As a result, some people seeking to follow Jesus have become disillusioned with prayer--perhaps even skeptical about it. And yet there is still a great desire and longing for connection with God. What is needed, then, is a reconstructed account of prayer--one that is theologically robust, pastorally honest, and spiritually wise. Andrew Ray Williams seeks to provide such an account by providing meditations on childlike prayers in hopes that it might open new ways of understanding specific issues related to Christian faith.

Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen is Professor of Systematic Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary and Docent of Ecumenics at University of Helsinki, Finland. A native of Finland, he has taught and lived with his family in Thailand and participates widely in international ecumenical, theological, and interreligious projects. Among about thirty books and monographs authored and edited, his main work is the five-volume A Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World.



Andrew Ray Williams is Pastor of Family Worship Center (York, Pennsylvania), an adjunct professor at Life Pacific University, and a St. Basil Fellow at the Center for Pastor Theologians. He is the author of Washed in the Spirit: Toward a Pentecostal Theology of Water Baptism and Boundless Love: A Companion to Clark H. Pinnock's Theology.



Patrick Oden is Director of Academic Integration, Fuller Equip, and an affiliate professor of theology at Fuller Theological Seminary. He is the author of such books as Hope for the Oppressor: Discovering Freedom through Transformative Community and The Transformative Church: New Ecclesial Models and the Theology of Jurgen Moltmann.



A. J. Swoboda is a professor, author, and pastor of Theophilus (theophiluschurch.com) in Portland, OR. He teaches theology, Bible, pastoral studies, and Christian history at George Fox Evangelical Seminary, Fuller Seminary, and a number of other universities and Bible colleges. Previous to this, A. J. served as a campus pastor at the University of Oregon. His doctoral research at the University of Birmingham (UK) explored the never-ending relationship between the Holy Spirit and ecology. He is a member of the American Academy of Religion and the Society for Pentecostal Studies. A. J. is the author of A Glorious Dark and Introducing Evangelical Ecotheology, among other books. You can find his website and blog at www.ajswoboda.com.