In Christianity is all prayer supplication, and if not, what else it at work?
Supplication being as I understand it a sort of request to God.
What prayers are unequivocally not requests, or nearly so?
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Sign up to join this communityIn Christianity is all prayer supplication, and if not, what else it at work?
Supplication being as I understand it a sort of request to God.
What prayers are unequivocally not requests, or nearly so?
Most Christian traditions (I'd not like to speak for all) would say yes, prayer involves more than supplication.
TEC (The Episcopal Church in the USA) outlines various forms of prayer in its catechism:
What are the principle [sic] kinds of prayer?
A. The principle kinds of prayer are adoration, praise, thanksgiving, penitence, oblation, intercession, and petition.
Of these, only intercession and petition (and, arguably, penitence) can be described as supplication.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church says something similar. It lists the types of prayer as
No doubt there are other answers to this question, but I think most Christian traditions would identify more than one form of prayer.
It certainly doesn't have to include supplication.
My 2-year-old daughter regularly prays: Thank you Jesus for my food. Amen. There's no supplication there, but it's certainly prayer.
Romans 11:33-36 is also a prayer, but it's praise and adoration, with no supplication.
Similarly Romans 16:25-27, or Psalm 8.