Hewitt, S orcid.org/0000-0003-2720-4428 (2020) Lead us not into Temptation: On the Proposed Revision of the Our Father. New Blackfriars, 101 (1095). pp. 538-545. ISSN 0028-4289
Abstract
Recently a change to the Italian text of the Pater Noster has been proposed. Motivation for this change centers on worries about the suggestion that God leads us into temptation. This paper argues that these worries issue from a confused picture of the relationship between God and creaturely freedom. More fundamentally, however, the suggestion that these kind of worries ought to precipitate revision of liturgical texts fails to take seriously the nature of the liturgy as prayer, rather than simply a means of communicating information. Drawing on Wittgenstein, the sui generis nature of prayer is laid out before the paper concludes with some comments on the distinctive values of both scholarship and prayer.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Hewitt, S. (2020), Lead us not into Temptation: On the Proposed Revision of the Our Father. New Blackfriars, 101: 538-545. doi:10.1111/nbfr.12510, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/nbfr.12510. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Lord's Prayer; litrugy; prayer; Wittgenstein; temptation; freedom |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) > School of Philosophy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 11 Jul 2019 10:20 |
Last Modified: | 08 Oct 2021 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/nbfr.12510 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:148426 |