Two thousand years ago Jesus sits on a mountain in Galilee and speaks. In this sermon for the ages, he answers the question, What is my purpose? Lost your zest for life? Need to know what God wants for you? Tired of praying without knowing why? The Lord's Prayer answers all of these questions and more. The Lord's Prayer and God's Vision for the World brings you face-to-face with God's vision for you.

Michael Brown's book helps to explain why Christians throughout the ages have interpreted texts differently, especially cultic texts. Beginning with an imagined Greco-Roman auditor of the Lord's Prayer, Brown demonstrates how a Greco-Roman's understanding of the prayer would have been different from that of a Hellenized Jew in Palestine. Brown takes the reader into discussions of early Greco-Roman Christians regarding prayer in general and the Lord's Prayer in particular. Focusing on cultic didachai of Clement of Alexandria and Tertullian of Carthage, The Lord's Prayer through North African Eyes is a window into the turbulent and sometimes confusing world of second century Christianity in Africa.