title: Revelation and Other Fiction from the Sewanee Review: A Centennial Anthology
author: George Core
description: Revelation and Other Fiction from the Sewanee Review: A Centennial Anthology - by various contributors
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  N. T. Wright
  
  WILLIAM B. EERDMANS PUBLISHING COMPANY
  
  GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
  
  FORWARD MOVEMENT PUBLICATIONS
  
  CINCINNATI, OHIO
  
  
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  # Contents
  
  Prologue 1
  
  1\. Our Father in Heaven 11
  
  2\. Thy Kingdom Come 24
  
  3\. Give Us This Day 36
  
  4\. Forgive Us Our Trespasses 49
  
  5\. Deliver Us From Evil 64
  
  6\. The Power and the Glory 77
  
  
  
  
  
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  # PROLOGUE
  
  (i)
  
  This book began life as a series of sermons preached
  
  
  in Lichfield Cathedral in Advent 1995. That explains
  
  
  some of its particular emphases, though I hope it will
  
  
  be found equally relevant wherever and whenever it is
  
  
  read. A few more words about its origin may help.
  
  I have been wanting for some time to share with a
  
  
  different audience some of the fruits from my last ten
  
  
  years of academic study, working on the historical
  
  
  life of Jesus. I didn't want j