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Bob Feldhaus's avatar

Of great interest and relevance to your point here is Donald Bloesch's "struggle of prayer" (including a book by that name). He does a good job distinguishing biblical, prophetic prayer, which integrally involves the kind of tension you describe, from pagan views of prayer. At stake is the irreducible person-ality of God, as opposed to a more contemplative, impersonal view of Godhead. In my psyche, such a "wrestling perspective" itself "wrestles" with the parts of my soul which favor a more serene, neoplatonic view of prayer. Perhaps this very struggle, this meta-dialectic, can function as a higher synthesis?

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Emma's avatar

I guess it also relates to Jesus’ teaching on prayer, which is to encourage us to ‘never give up’

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