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On not understanding prayer

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  1. Prayer and Providence (S.C.M. 1968), Chap. 4.

  2. Compare Soloviev: ‘Until you show me the goodness of your Lord in his own deeds and not in verbal precepts to his employees, I shall stick to my opinion that your distant lord, demanding good from others but doing no good himself, imposing duties but showing no love, never appearing before your eyes but livingincognito somewhere abroad, is no one else butthe god of this age.’ Three Disclosures Concerning War, Progress and the End, Eng. trans. 1915, p. 173.

  3. See also Phillips’ ‘Faith, Scepticism and Religious Understanding’ inReligion and Understanding, ed. D. Z. Phillips, Blackwell, 1967.

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    R. T. Allen

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Allen, R.T. On not understanding prayer. SOPH 10, 1–7 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02804261

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