Praying the Psalms : engaging Scripture and the life of the Spirit

In this thoroughly revised edition of a classic in spirituality, Walter Brueggemann guides the reader into a thoughtful and moving encounter with the Psalms. This new edition includes a revised text, new notes, and new bibliography. The movement and meeting of God with us is indeed a speech-event in which new humanness is evoked among us. Being attentive to language means cultivating the candid imagination to bring our own experience to the Psalms and permitting it to be disciplined by the speech of the Psalms. And, conversely, it means letting the Psalms address us and having that language reshape our sensitivities and fill our minds with new pictures and images that may redirect our lives. Covers ......Page 1 Title page ......Page 5 Dedication ......Page 7 Contents ......Page 9 Preface to the First Edition ......Page 11 Preface to the Second Edition ......Page 15 1. Letting Experience Touch the Psalter ......Page 21 2. The Liberation of Language ......Page 37 3. Language Appropriate to a Place ......Page 49 4. Christians in "Jewish Territory" ......Page 63 5. Vengeance: Human and Divine ......Page 83 Bibliography ......Page 103 Scripture Index ......Page 111 Subject and Author Index ......Page 115 A readable and powerful call, by a leading Old Testament scholar, to pray with and through the Psalms. Walter Brueggemann pushes his readers to recognize the full gamut of passions reflected in the joy and exultation but also disappointment, sorrow, anger, resentment, even the desire for vengeance. We are invited into a daring relationsh...