{"product_id":"psalms-and-life-of-faith-9780800627331","title":"Psalms and Life of Faith","description":"\u003cp\u003eWalter 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders of this book will find fresh insight into: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e the Psalms as prayer and praise\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e the categories of the Psalms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe social context in which psalms were prayed and sung\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe theology of the Psalms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe dialogical character of the Psalms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ejustice and injustice in the Psalms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe study and \"use\" of the Psalms by the church\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epraise as an act of basic trust and abandonment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe impossible wonders of God's activity that overturn conventional ways of thinking and acting\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMiller, Patrick D.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrick D. Miller \u003c\/b\u003eis Charles T. Haley Professor of Old Testament Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary and the author of two Fortress Press volumes: \u003ci\u003eThey Cried to the Lord: The Form and Theology of Biblical Prayer\u003c\/i\u003e (1994) and \u003ci\u003eInterpreting the Psalms\u003c\/i\u003e (1986).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrueggemann, Walter:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWalter Brueggemann\u003c\/strong\u003e was William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary until his death in 2025. An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, he is still regarded as the premier Old Testament interpreter and biblical theologian. Among his many publications are \u003cem\u003eProphetic Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eOld Testament Theology\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fortress Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51834621886738,"sku":"9780800627331","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d60a2935-0fd0-4233-83c8-0b6cea4ed9f7.jpg?v=1767095554","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/psalms-and-life-of-faith-9780800627331","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}