Kenneth W. Stevenson is the Bishop of Portsmouth and a member of the Liturgical Commission of the Church of England. His many books include Do This: The Style, Shape and Meaning of the Eucharist (2002), Abba Father: Understanding and Using the Lord's Prayer (2000), and The Mystery of Baptism in the Anglican Tradition (1998).

This magisterial study surveys the contributions of biblical scholars and theologians from the early patristic writers to the modern era, from eastern and western traditions, and from Catholic and Reformed, Enlightenment and Modernist sources to the interpretation of the Lord's Prayer.