Journal article
Our Father: Glossing a Bohemian Prayer
Biblical interpretation, Vol.22(1), pp.71-89
2014
DOI: 10.1163/15685152-0221p0005
Abstract
This commentary on the Lord’s Prayer examines its tone of spiritual abandonment and cultural
secondariness
. The
Our Father
was a buttress of faith and liturgy for the medieval Church, while the prayer’s sense of desolation gives it a “bohemian” quality associated with poets and vagabonds. Later on, the Cathars adopted the
Pater Noster
as a “central text” having esoteric and spiritual importance. Although the Cathars were persecuted in the Middle Ages as heretics, their understanding of the Lord’s Prayer returns us to the prayer’s sense of isolation and cosmic abandonment.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Our Father: Glossing a Bohemian Prayer
- Creators
- Michael Edward Moore - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Biblical interpretation, Vol.22(1), pp.71-89
- DOI
- 10.1163/15685152-0221p0005
- ISSN
- 0927-2569
- eISSN
- 1568-5152
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2014
- Academic Unit
- History; International Programs; Law Faculty
- Record Identifier
- 9984278129702771
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