Psalms and the Life of Faith

Name: Psalms and the Life of Faith
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ISBN: 9780800627331

ISBN-10: 0800627334

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Authors: Walter Brueggemann, Patrick D. Miller

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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…

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List price: $26.00
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date: 9/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Patrick D. Miller is the Charles T. Haley Professor of Old Testament Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary, and author of Deuteronomy.



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Introduction




Psalms and the Life of Faith: A Suggested Typology of Function



The Psalms as Prayer



From Hurt to Joy, from Death to Life



The Formfulness of Grief



The Costly Loss of Lament



Praise and the Psalms: A Politics of Glad Abandonment



Prayer as an Act of Daring Dance: Four Biblical Examples



Covenanting as Human Vocation: The Relation of the Bible and Pastoral Care



"Impossibility" and Epistemology in the Faith Tradition of Abraham and Sarah (Genesis 18:1-15)



Bounded by Obedience and Praise: The Psalms as Canon



Psalms 9-10: A Counter to Conventional Social Reality



Psalm 37: Conflict of Interpretation



Psalm 77: The Turn from Self to God



Psalm 109: Steadfast Love as Social Solidarity


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