Prayer. [The Minister's Week Lectures, January 1938; The Ayer Lectures, March, 1940; The Cole Lectures, April, 1941] [Jesus & Prayer; Prayer & the World; Prayer & Personality]

333 pp. 24 cm. ; LCCN: 42-36028 ; OCLC: 327887 ; LC: BV210; Dewey: 264.1 ; blue cloth with gold lettering, in mauve and black nicked dustajcket ; SIGNED presentation by Buttrick to Opal Pierce in Atlanta on January 1954, on front ep ; heavy foxing ; extracts from the book were presented as The Minister's Week Lectures, January 1938 at Emory University; The Ayer Lectures, March, 1940 at Colgate-Rochester Divinity School; The Cole Lectures, April, 1941 at Vanderbilt University ; "Written in a ti me of world upheaval--the outward symptoms of inward chaos--these chapters meet the problems of prayer with startling frankness and light. The issue of years of intensive labor, they demand a counter-revolution in thinking, a new appraisal of both science and religion. They propose that the understanding and practice of prayer shall be the rebirth of man's spirit."--Dustjacket ; G/G.