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Our Hearts Wait - Worshiping through Praise and Lament in the Psalms (Paperback)
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Our Hearts Wait - Worshiping through Praise and Lament in the Psalms (Paperback)
Series: Walter Brueggemann Library
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The Walter Brueggemann Library brings together the wide-ranging and
enlivening thought of popular biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann
over his storied career. Each volume collects previously published
work on a biblical theme that has deeply informed Brueggemann's
scholarship, in an accessible digest for readers who want to
freshly engage his prophetically minded but approachable writing on
the topic. In Our Hearts Wait, Brueggemann meditates on the
emotional range of our longings and gratitudes in the psalms,
revealing how this bold outpouring of our full selves to the divine
has effects far beyond introspection. He traces how the language of
the psalms offers a template for liturgies that shape not only our
collective worship and communities, but the worlds they create and
sustain. Words of worship do not fall vacant and inactive-they help
bring into being realities both sacred and sociopolitical.
Throughout this exploration of the psalms, Brueggemann shows
readers how the language we use in worship performs what it
proclaims. It nurtures and challenges us in seasons of orientation
and praise, disorientation and grief, reorientation, and
thanksgiving-bringing our full attention to each experience in its
turn. But in doing so, the words and deeds of worship can also
sharpen our awareness of social constructions and relationships
that undergird our common life. They reveal power imbalances and
uneven distributions of resources, and, if we let them, urge us
forward in our efforts toward justice. Thus, psalms of praise
express trust in and abandonment to God, and also pose sharp
critiques of unjust public policies that abandon those who are
socially invisible. The psalms of grief and lament accompany
communities through real experiences of loss and suffering-but also
make room for the sufferers to be heard and to challenge the status
quo. The language of worship, when used intentionally and with
care, helps to create a reality marked by fidelity, abundance,
truth, hope, and dependence on God. With Brueggemann as guide,
readers can apprehend the potency of the psalms' bold petition and
dialogue with God, giving voice to the distressed and anticipating
the transformation of our lives together and as a society.
Questions for reflection are included at the end of each chapter,
making this book ideal for individual or group study.
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