This little 60-page booklet breaks down the Lord's Prayer, providing a line-by-line explanation. The provocative subtitle is The Subversive Nature of the Lord's Prayer, planting images in my mind of a prayer that drives me trembling to my knees, but that isn't quite the way Robert means it. The preface explains, "Prayer that is subversive is prayer that engages 'the powers that be.'"

Christians have for a couple thousand years recited this prayer—the Didache advises believers More...

More of an extended pamphlet than a book - 81 pages - but very good. To show how revolutionary the Prayer it, the book places it in its original context, and explains what the first hearers would have heard, rather then tose of us who have heard it repeatedly over our lives. It stresses the corporate nature of the prayer. It reminds us the Kingdom of God is this-worldly as much or more than other-worldly. The short chapter on "Deliver us from evil," was fascinating in its definitio More...

An excellent little book that should be good for clergy and laity alike with smart, but easy to follow ideas that will leave you thinking. A book to read multiple times. It is short, I read it on a single Sunday afternoon. It would also be ideal for a Sunday school class or small group.
I read the Kindle edition of the book. It is well priced, brief, but bountiful in content with inspiration and challenges for the modern Christian to contemplate.

Full review on my blog.