Prayer is the most practised and least examined activity in the life of faith. It is taught to children before they can read, repeated in public worship and private devotion alike, and invoked in circumstances from the trivial to the terminal. Yet the biblical text is rarely read for what it actually says about it.This first volume of the According to Scripture series examines prayer from beginning to end of the canon. It does not ask what prayer should be by the standards of any p...

What can actually be known about God? The question is older than any system of theology built to answer it, and the Bible's own answer is more restrained than most readers expect.This second volume of the According to Scripture series examines every major statement Scripture makes about the nature of God, tracing the subject from the first sentence of Genesis to the closing vision of the New Testament. It begins with the texts in which God defines Himself — the nam...