The essays in "Psalms and Practice" explore how the notion of
practice helps contemporary readers understand psalms in a new way.
Practice, according to the authors, happens as faith seeks
understanding through spiritual disciplines. These practices
continue the work of the Holy Spirit - faith seeking understanding,
understanding seeking embodiment through practice, and practice
nurturing faith.
Practice and the psalms are never far from the formation of the
soul which takes place in a number of ways. The essays in "Psalms
and Practice" look at three aspects of formation: prayer, how the
psalms shape our faith through the process of liturgy, and how the
psalms shape the preached word.
Formation then occurs in contemplation, liturgy, and preaching,
but it occurs in other action as well. "Psalms and Practice" also
explores those elements of practice and the psalms by looking at
the practice of translation as a way of practicing the psalms and
examining other ways to relate the psalms to our modern lives.
"Psalms and Practice" is the result of conversations of
scholars, who are also committed church people, at work in the
field of Psalms research. These scholars came together for three
days to share their papers and a time of prayer in both Protestant
and Roman Catholic traditions. The participants noted that the
combination of conversation on the psalms and the practice of
reading and praying the psalms in worship enriched the conversation
of reading the psalms in the discussion of the papers.
Chapters in "Part I: Psalms and Practice" are Psalms, Bhajan,
and Kirtan. Songs of the Soul in Comparative Perspective," *The
Psalms as a Place to Begin for Old Testament Theology, - and *Power
and Practice: Performative Speech and Piety in Psalm 132. -
Chapters in "Part II: Psalms and Practice: Contemplation and
Worship" are *Praying with Psalms: A School of Prayer, - *The
Sacramental Function of the Psalms in Contemporary Scholarship and
Liturgical Practice, - *Burning Our Lamps with Borrowed Oil: The
Liturgical Use of the Psalms and the Life of Faith, - *My Tongue
Will Sing Aloud to Your Deliverance: Praise and Sacrifice in the
Psalms, - *Thus Says to the Lord: 'Thou Shalt Preach on the Psalms
' - *The Psalms in Worship and Preaching: A Report, - and *How
Long, O Lord Will Your People Suffer in Silence Forever. - Chapters
in "Part III: Psalms and Practice: Virtue and Authority" are *The
Virtues of the Righteous in Psalm 37: An Exercise in Translation, -
*The Cursing Psalms as a Source for Blessing, - *al God and Also
Us: Double Agency and Reconciliation in Psalms 22 and 51, - *Songs
for the City: Interpreting Biblical Psalms in the Urban Context, -
and *Taking Inspiration: Authorship, Revelation, and the Book of
Psalms. -
Contributors are Dorothy Bass; Terry Muck; W. H. Bellinger, Jr.;
Stephen Breck Reid; John C. Endres, S.J.; Harry P. Nasuti; Rolf
Jacobson; Kathryn L. Roberts; J. Clinton McCann, Jr.; James C.
Howell; Beth LaNeel Tanner; Michael Jinkins; Larry Silva; Cynthial.
Rigby; Gerald H. Wilson; and Mark S. Smith.
"Stephen Breck Reid is a professor of Old Testament studies at
Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Austin, Texas. He is an
ordained minister in the Church of the Brethren and is a member of
the Society of Biblical Literature, the Catholic Biblical
Association, and the Society for the Study of Black Religion. He
has authored four other books and numerous articles.""
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