Modlitwa prywatna starożytnych chrześcijan

Abstract

The article consists of three essential parts. In the first one authortries to characterize synthetically Early Christian private prayers. She shows that they were under the great influence of the Bible, particularly of the Psalms and the Lord ’s Prayer, of public prayers and dogmatic decisions of the Church and even of some pagan customs and traditions. The second part, more detailed, deals with a recurrence and places of private prayers, pose of the Christians during the prayer, kinds of prayers and a few less known practices accompanying them. The third part – to illustrate the subject – contains a number of Early Christian private prayers, coming from Greek papyri, inscriptions, martyrs’ acts and works of Early Christian writers.