Origen on Prayer includes these topics:
• Scriptural Uses of the General Words For Prayer
• Objections to Prayer
• Answer to Objections: Man’s Freewill and God’s Foreknowledge
• Answer to Objections: Conditions Necessary to Prayer
• Answer to Objections: He Who Prays Prays Not Alone
• Answer To Objections: The True Place Of Prayer In Man’s Life
• Answer to Objections: Signal Instances of Prayer
• The Content of Prayer: Its Four Moods
• The Recipient of Prayer in Its Four Moods
• The Objects of Prayer
• The Lord’s Prayer: the Preface in Matthew
• The Lord’s Prayer — Our Father in Heaven
• Hallowed Be Thy Name
• Thy Kingdom Come
• Thy Will Be Done on Earth Also As in Heaven
• Give Us Today Our Needful Bread
• And Forgive Us Our Debts As We Also Have Forgiven Our Debtors
• And Bring Us Not Into Temptation But Deliver Us From Evil
• Formalities of Prayer: Conclusion
Origen, or Origen Adamantius, was a scholar and early Christian theologian who was born and spent the first half of his career in Alexandria. He was a prolific writer in multiple branches of theology, including textual criticism, biblical exegesis and hermeneutics, philosophical theology, preaching, and spirituality.
