The Psalms and the Life of FaithFortress Press, 1995 - 292 pages Walter Brueggemann's unique gift of joining historical-exegetical insights to penetrating observations about the traumas and joys of contemporary life?both personal and social?is 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 praisethe categories of the Psalmsthe social context in which psalms were prayed and sungthe theology of the Psalmsthe dialogical character of the Psalmsjustice and injustice in the Psalmsthe study and "use" of the Psalms by the churchpraise as an act of basic trust and abandonmentthe impossible wonders of God's activity that overturn conventional ways of |
Contents
Psalms and the Life of Faith A Suggested Typology of Function | 3 |
The Psalms as Prayer | 33 |
From Hurt to Joy from Death to Life | 67 |
The Formfulness of Grief | 84 |
The Costly Loss of Lament | 98 |
Praise and the Psalms A Politics of Glad Abandonment | 112 |
Prayer as an Act of Daring Dance Four Biblical Examples | 135 |
Covenanting as Human Vocation The Relation of the Bible and Pastoral Care | 150 |
Bounded by Obedience and Praise The Psalms as Canon | 189 |
Psalms 910 A Counter to Conventional Social Reality | 217 |
Psalm 37 Conflict of Interpretation | 235 |
Psalm 77 The Turn from Self to God | 258 |
Psalm 109 Steadfast Love as Social Solidarity | 268 |
Credits | 283 |
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Impossibility and Epistemology in the Faith Tradition of Abraham and Sarah Genesis 18115 | 167 |
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