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 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.

• The Founding of Carolina

  • The Province of Carolina was created when Charles II rewarded the Lords Proprietor lands that include the modern day Carolinas and Georgia.
  • They named their colony Carolina, and they themselves were called the Lords Proprietors.
  • The Province of Carolina was controlled from 1663 to 1729 by these lords and their heirs.
  • The most active in the colonies was Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper, the 1st Earl of Shaftsbury.
  • The Earl of Clarendon was one of eight Lords Proprietor given title to the Province of Carolina.

• The First Emancipation

  • Lord Dunmore's Proclamation was the first mass emancipation of enslaved people in United States history.
  • In November 1775 Lord Dunmore, Royal Governor of Virginia, issued a controversial proclamation, later known as Lord Dunmore's Proclamation.
  • The governor formed them into the Ethiopian Regiment, also known as Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment.
  • Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment was probably the first black regiment in the service of the Crown during the revolution.

• The Revolution and Churches

  • The Book of Common Prayer offered prayers for the monarch, beseeching God "to be his defender and keeper, giving him victory over all his enemies".
  • Patriotic American members of the Church of England, loathing to discard so fundamental a component of their faith as The Book of Common Prayer, revised it to conform to the political realities of the time.

• The Carolinas

  • The 1663 charter granted the Lords Proprietor title to all of the land from the southern border of the Virginia Colony to the coast of present-day Georgia.
  • Another region, near present-day Charleston, South Carolina, was settled under the Lords Proprietors in 1670.
  • The Lords Proprietors, operating under their royal charter, were able to exercise their authority with nearly the autonomy of the king himself.
  • This period culminated in Cary's Rebellion when the Lords Proprietors finally commissioned a new governor.
  • This circumstance, coupled with hostilities with American Indian tribes and the inability of the Lords Proprietors to act decisively, led to separate governments for North and South Carolina.

• The Anglican Class

  • Some ministers solved their problems by encouraging parishioners to become devout at home, using the Book of Common Prayer for private prayer and devotion (rather than the Bible).

• Maryland

  • The province began as a proprietary colony of the English Lord Baltimore and as a haven for English Roman Catholics in the New World.
  • Maryland's foundational charter created a state ruled by Lord Baltimore, who directly owned all of the land granted in the charter.
  • The charter created an aristocracy of lords of the manor who bought land from Baltimore and held greater legal and social privileges than the common settlers.

• Women and Church Governance

  • Women's prayer was seen by leaders such as Charles Finney as a crucial aspect in preparing a community for revival and improving the revival's efficacy.
  • Women's prayer groups were an early and socially acceptable form of women's organization.

• The Aftermath of Saratoga

  • The British government of Lord Frederick North came under sharp criticism when the news of Burgoyne's surrender reached London.
  • This defeat prompted Lord North to issue a proposal for peace terms in Parliament.
  • Following the Patriot victory at Saratoga, Lord North's government was heavily criticized for their management of the war effort.