Prayer

This chapter assumes the presence, traditionally, of two forms of prayer in general Anglican practice: individuated or spontaneous prayer and liturgical prayer and the daily offices. It treats liturgical prayer as being of two kinds, using for this the typology of established texts prayed in either corporate or private exercise. It considers individuated prayer as being informed increasingly by extra-Anglican, but historic and/or orthodox, prayer methods and tools, and investigates the communal implications of that shift. Using this framework, it overviews the changes in prayer concepts and practices that have been set in motion by post-twentieth century globalization, diversity, science, and so on, and considers the implications of these changes for worldwide Anglicanism as well as for new and developing configurations of Christianity which Anglicanism increasingly informs.