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The Lord's Prayer is the fundamental prayer of Christianity. It reveals what it means to be a Christian and to become one, what challenges and moves Christians, and what hope they are filled with. In his interpretation of the petitions of the Lord's Prayer, Jürgen Werbick introduces readers to Christian prayer and faith. He addresses the challenges that arise when one takes the wording of the petitions seriously and attempts to incorporate them into prayer. In doing so, he unveils God's personal and supra-personal reality, whose goodwill can be experienced by humans as a life task and promise. The book accounts for the hope that fills the believers. It leads to a way of being human that corresponds to this hope in God, a way that feels secure in God's inexhaustibly creative power of life and love. An impressive empathy.