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| Preface | |
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| Prelude: Patristic Testimonies | |
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| The Psalms and the Basic Grammar of Christian Worship | |
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| Personal Address and Dialogic Structure | |
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| Identifying God's Character through Metaphor and Historical Recitation | |
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| The Ebb, Flow, and Fittingness of Praise and Petition, Gratitude and Lament | |
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| Individual and Communal Speech | |
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| Specificity and Generality in Prayer | |
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| Emotional Engagement and Range | |
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| Image and Poetry in Christian Speech | |
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| Interlude: Reformation-Era Testimonies from Luther and Calvin | |
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| Praying the Psalms in Christian Worship | |
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| Choosing a Psalm | |
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| Liturgical Criteria | |
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| Homiletical Criteria | |
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| Pastoral Criteria | |
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| Choosing a Translation | |
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| Translations and Paraphrases of the Psalms | |
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| The Liturgical Placement of a Psalm | |
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| Framing the Congregation's Mode of Engagement | |
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| Psalm Types | |
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| Contemplation or Prayer | |
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| Christological Framings of Psalm Texts | |
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| The Psalms in New Testament Context | |
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| Studying the Psalm | |
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| Pace | |
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| Structure | |
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| Script | |
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| Poetic Lines | |
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| Parallelism | |
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| Realizing the Psalms: Options for Singing or Speaking | |
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| Solo Reading | |
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| Choral Reading | |
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| Responsive or Antiphonal Readings | |
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| Chant | |
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| Psalm Tones and Pointed Text | |
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| Anglican Chant | |
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| Gelineau Psalmody | |
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| Plainchant | |
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| Responsorial Psalmody (or Psalmody with Congregational Refrains or Antiphons) | |
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| Metrical Psalmody | |
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| Psalm-Based Solo and Choral Anthems, Organ and Instrumental Music | |
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| The Psalms in Contemporary and Emerging Worship, Psalm-Based Scripture Songs, and the Psalms in Popular Music Idioms | |
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| Basis for Improvised Prayer | |
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| Visual Imagery, Children's Books, Calligraphy | |
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| Composite Collections of Psalmody | |
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| Children and Youth in Intergenerational Worship | |
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| Selecting from among These Methods | |
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| Finding Sources | |
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| Pastoral Postscript | |
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| Postlude Modern Testimonies | |
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| A Brief Set of Exercises for Classroom Use | |
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| Some Creative Thinking about Worship Renewal | |
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| General Bibliography | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Permissions | |
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| Index of Names | |
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| Index of Subjects | |
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| Index of Psalms | |