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Title: The Psalms and the Life of Faith By: Walter Brueggemann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Vendor: Fortress Press Publication Date: 1995 | Dimensions: 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 (inches) Weight: 13 ounces ISBN: 0800627334 ISBN-13: 9780800627331 Stock No: WW27334 |
Walter Brueggemann's unique gift of joining historical-exegetical insights to penetrating observations about the traumas and joys of contemporary lifeboth personal and socialis here forcefully displayed. Everyone who is familiar with his work knows the power of his speech about "doxological, polemical, political, subversive, evangelical faith: and about the ways such faith is enacted in the praise of ancient Israel and in the church.
Readers of this book will find fresh insight into:
the Psalms as prayer and praise
the categories of the Psalms
the social context in which psalms were prayed and sung
the theology of the Psalms
the dialogical character of the Psalms
justice and injustice in the Psalms
the study and "use" of the Psalms by the church
praise as an act of basic trust and abandonment
the impossible wonders of God's activity that overturn conventional ways of thinking and acting
Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, he is regarded as the premier Old Testament interpreter and biblical theologian of today. Among his many publications are Prophetic Imagination and Old Testament Theology.
Patrick D. Miller is Charles T. Haley Professor of Old Testament Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary and the author of two Fortress Press volumes: They Cried to the Lord: The Form and Theology of Biblical Prayer (1994) and Interpreting the Psalms (1986).
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