Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
The Meaning of Prayer
Harry Emerson Fosdick · 2007
82/100
👍 Worth It
Fosdick's century-old devotional guide has stayed in print because it earns its place — the ten-week structure is practical, the theology of prayer is more nuanced than most contemporary equivalents, and the daily readings make it genuinely usable rather than just admirable. Conservative evangelicals should know Fosdick's modernist leanings going in, but readers who can engage the ideas rather than the label will find this one of the better studies on prayer available anywhere.
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originality76
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