Lord's Prayer

Examples of Lord's Prayer in the following topics:

• The Social Gospel

  • Theologically, the Social Gospellers sought to operationalize the Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:10): "Thy kingdom come.

• The Manor System

  • Manorialism was characterized by the vesting of legal and economic power in the lord of a manor.
  • Serfs were often required to work on not only the lord's fields, but also his mines, forests, and roads.
  • As part of the contract with the landlord, the lord of the manor, they were expected to spend some of their time working on the lord's fields.
  • Villeins were tied to the land and could not move away without their lord's consent and the acceptance of the lord to whose manor they proposed to migrate to.
  • In the Middle Ages, land within a lord's manor provided sustenance and survival, and being a villein guaranteed access to land and kept crops secure from theft by marauding robbers.

• Prayers

  • Prayer may be either individual or communal and take place in public or in private.
  • Most major religions involve prayer in one way or another.
  • Some Native Americans regard dancing as a form of prayer .
  • Jewish prayer may involve swaying back and forth and bowing.
  • Muslims practice salah (kneeling and prostration) in their prayers.

• The Quran

  • When he was nearly 40, Muhammad began spending many hours alone in prayer and speculating over the aspects of creation.
  • The initial revelation was followed by a pause of three years (a period known as fatra) during which Muhammad felt depressed and further gave himself to prayers and spiritual practices.
  • Muhammad's mission also involves preaching monotheism; the Quran commands Muhammad to proclaim and praise the name of his Lord and instructs him not to worship idols or associate other deities with God.
  • Salat (prayer): consists of five daily prayers, the names referring to the prayer times: Fajr (dawn), Dhuhr (noon), ʿAṣr (afternoon), Maghrib (evening), and ʿIshāʾ (night).
  • All of these prayers are recited while facing in the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca, and are accompanied by a series of set positions including bowing with hands on knees, standing, prostrating, and sitting in a special position.

• Feudalism

  • A lord was in broad terms a noble who held land, a vassal was a person who was granted possession of the land by the lord, and a fief was what the land was known as.
  • In exchange for the use of the fief and the protection of the lord, the vassal would provide some sort of service to the lord.
  • During homage, the lord and vassal entered into a contract in which the vassal promised to fight for the lord at his command, while the lord agreed to protect the vassal from external forces.
  • The vassal's principal obligation to the lord was "aid," or military service.
  • In France, counties and duchies began to break down into smaller holdings as castellans and lesser seigneurs took control of local lands, and (as comital families had done before them) lesser lords usurped/privatized a wide range of prerogatives and rights of the state—most importantly the highly profitable rights of justice, but also travel dues, market dues, fees for using woodlands, obligations to use the lord's mill, etc.

• Hindu Sculpture

  • For example, the goddess Sarasvati is always depicted with a minimum of four arms: two of the arms will be playing a vina, representing the tuning of her knowledge; her other two hands often hold prayer beads and a scripture, both of which represent her devotion to her spirituality.

• Islamic Art

  • A Calligraphic Panel by Mustafa Râkim (late 18th - early 19th century) which reads: "God, there is no god but He, the Lord of His prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and the Lord of all that has been created"

• Japanese Architecture in the Momoyama Period

  • The ornate castle architecture and interiors of the Momoyama period were a reflection of both a feudal lord's power and a new aesthetic sense.
  • The ornate castle architecture and interiors, adorned with painted screens embellished with gold leaf, were a reflection of both the power of the feudal lord (known as a daimyo) and a new aesthetic sense that marked a clear departure from the somber monotones favored during the previous Muromachi period.

• The Anglican Church

  • This contributed to a state of hostility between his young contemporaries and the Lord Chancellor, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey.
  • A new pattern of worship was set out in the Book of Common Prayer (1549 and 1552).
  • The publication of Cranmer's revised prayer book in 1552, supported by a second Act of Uniformity, "marked the arrival of the English Church at protestantism."
  • The prayer book of 1552 remains the foundation of the Church of England's services.

• The Religious Right

  • Christian television programs, such as Pat Robertson’s The 700 Club and Jim Bakker’s The PTL (Praise the Lord) Club, proved enormously popular and raised millions of dollars from viewer contributions.
  • It also engaged in battles over pornography, obscenity, abortion, state-sanctioned prayer in public schools, textbook contents (concerning evolution vs. creationism), homosexuality, and sexual education.