Contents
Preface
Interpreting the Text
from the Context
Jesus' Prayer as the
Original Antiestablishment Household Prayer
One: Jesus' Official
Prayer
Contrasting the Matthean
and Lukan Versions of Jesus' Prayer
Justice at the Heart of
Matthew's Gospel
Matthean Prayer as
Subversive
Why the Secrecy Connected
to Jesus' Prayer?
Reasons Why Such a
Now-Public Prayer Once Was Offered in Such Secrecy
Contemporary Prayer and
the Embrace of Empire
Jesus' Prayer as the
Public Promotion of Justice in a World of Injustice
Two: Our Father in Heaven
God as a Trinitarian
Household (Oikonomia) of Persons, Relations, and Resources
Who Is This One Called
"Father" That We Claim as Our Own?
What Does It Mean to Call
God "Ours"?
Where on Earth Is Our
Father in Heaven?
Three: On Earth as It Is
in Heaven
Faith about the Heavens
and God's Role on Earth
Exousia: The Power of God
at the Core of Heaven and Earth
The God of the Heavens
and Earth and the God of the Empire's Earth and Heavens
How the Earth and Our
Prayer Are Being Challenged by Globalization
How the Heavens and Our
Prayer Are Being Challenged by Environmental Degradation
On Earth, or Only in
Heaven?
Four: Hallowed Be Your
Name on Earth as It Is in Heaven
Holiness in the Hebrew
Scriptures
Leviticus 19: Holiness as
Separation vs. Holiness as Mercy
Isaiah 6:1-13: Human
Holiness as the Effort to Transform
Whatever Profanes God's
Holiness
Making God's Name Holy on
Earth as It Is in Heaven
Five: Your Kin(g)dom Come
on Earth as It Is in Heaven
Jesus' Preaching of the
Inbreaking of God's Kingdom
God's Kingdom = God's
Kindom
God's Kindom Contrasted
to That of Religion and Society, Church and Culture
A Spirituality of Exile
Parables of the Kindom:
Jesus' Exilic Way of Subverting His Religion and His World
Six: Your Will Be Done on
Earth as It Is in Heaven
"God's will"
and the Support of Violence
How Is God's will to Be
Done on Earth as It Is in Heaven?
The "Will of the
Father" in Matthew
The Story of the Rich
Young Man
God's Will and the
Rejection of Violence
Seven: Give Us This Day
Our Daily Bread
The Bread That All of Us
Need Each Day
Our Dependency on God
Our Interdependency with
Each Other
Living One Day at a Time
The Antithesis of
Contemporary Capitalism
The Need in Our Church
and Society for Compassion
Eight: Forgive Us Our
Debts as We Forgive Those Who Trespass against Us
Forgiveness of Debts in a
Culture Defined by Patron/Client Relationships
The Parable of the Reign
of God and the Merciless Official
What Does It Mean to
"Forgive Your Brother or Sister from Your Heart"?
Compassionate Release and
Debt Forgiveness as the Way of Jubilee
Forgiveness of Debts
Accompanied by a Repentance That Makes Things Right
Nine: Lead Us Not into
Temptation but Deliver Us from Evil
Probing the Text to
Understand Its Context
"The Triumph of
American Materialism"
Conversion according to
Madison Avenue and to Matthew's Jesus
Matthew's Household Codes
and the Need for New Households of Faith
Notes
