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To the modern ear, the concept of cursing sounds otherworldly,
mystical, abhorrent. For some the idea may evoke images of
terror—images not of God but of the devil. How then are
Christians to understand the imprecatory psalms, which are violent
and, for many, disturbing prayers for judgment that seem to
contravene Christ's command to "love thy enemy"?Drawing together
redemptive-historical biblical theology and narrative ethics,
Trevor Laurence's Cursing with God assesses the imprecatory psalms
and the viability of their performance by the Christian church.
Laurence argues that prayerful enactment of the imprecatory psalms
is an obligatory exercise of the church's God-given calling as a
royal priesthood in God's story. This study evaluates the
imprecations within their intertextually constructed narrative
world, presenting a biblical theological reading of their petitions
as the faithful prayers of the royal-priestly son of God whose
vocation is to guard God's temple-kingdom from the forces that
would defile it and to subdue the earth as sacred space. Attention
to the New Testament's polyvalent interaction with the imprecatory
psalms discloses how the New Testament narrates God's work in
Christ with reference to the figures and structures of the
imprecations. With the resultant biblical theological synthesis as
a narrative framework for ethical reflection, Cursing with God
culminates with a proposal for faithful Christian cursing that
coheres with the church's royal-priestly vocation and inter-advent
location in God's narrative and contends that imprecatory
performance has the dynamic capacity to stimulate faith, hope, and
love while galvanizing the church to work for a more just world.
With scholars, students, and trained clergy in view, Cursing with
God aims to generate a recovery of the imprecatory psalms in
Christian worship and piety.
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