Patrick Woodhouse

Life in the Psalms

Contemporary Meaning in Ancient Texts: The Mowbray Lent Book 2016

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Produktbeschreibung

The Mowbray Lent Book for 2016.The Psalms lie at the heart of Jewish and Christian worship. For thousands of years people in despair and praise have cried to God through the words of these ancient poems. Fragments of them are still widely known and loved, but such is the gulf between their ancient culture and our contemporary world that much of the depth of their meaning is lost to us. Life in the Psalms aims to bridge that gulf, enabling the modern reader to find hope in these ancient texts by re-imagining their meanings for our times. The Psalms include texts that illuminate issues including climate change and environmental degradation; the illusions of consumerism and 'celebrity culture'; our response to migrants and asylum seekers; conditions of depression, anxiety, and grief, and the question of 'attention' in a digital age. Many texts take us deeply into the experience of meditation and contemplation; and teach us how to wonder, and find happiness. Three introductory chapters are followed by reflections on thirty Psalms (one for each weekday of Lent), which aim to illuminate the text and help those in search of a more contemplative spirituality to discover, in the midst of the hard realities of a secular twenty-first century world, a deep consciousness of the healing mystery of God.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Continuum / Bloomsbury Specialist
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 282718
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 232g
• ISBN-13: 9781472923141
• ISBN-10: 1472923146
• Artikelnr.: 42553419

Autorenporträt

Patrick Woodhouse is a writer and Anglican priest. He was for thirteen years a Canon of Wells Cathedral. He has also been a parish priest, and a social responsibility adviser in two Anglican dioceses. He is the author of Etty Hillesum, a Life Transformed (Bloomsbury Continuum 2009). He lives in Somerset.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction1 Why the Psalms?2 What are the Psalms?3 Praying the PsalmsFirst Week: PilgrimagePsalm 122 The peace of JerusalemPsalm 84 Journeying towards integrityPsalm 133 Oil running downPsalm 42 Deep calls to deepPsalm 43 What is true?Second Week: PrayerPsalm 63 Come and seePsalm 123 Mercy within mercy within mercyPsalm 131 Like a weaned childPsalm 1 A tree planted by the watersidePsalm 4 My heart, their corn and wine and oilThird Week: WonderPsalm 8 Infants and starsPsalm 104 Wonder and protestPsalm 19 A theatre of gloryPsalm 139 The uttermost parts of the seaPsalm 103 Forget notFourth Week: The WayPsalm 119.1-8 The path of happinessPsalm 119.9-16 Mind changePsalm 119.129-36 Passion and compassionPsalm 23 Lacking nothingPsalm 27 In a secret placeFifth Week: HopePsalm 71 Hoping continuallyPsalm 46 Be still and knowPsalm 36 The well of lifePsalm 131 From where is my help to come?Psalm 62 Tottering and leaningHoly Week: SufferingPsalm 91 Trampling the serpentPsalm 13 How long, O Lord?Psalm 137 By the waters of BabylonPsalm 130 Out of the depthsPsalm 22 The image of the crucified NotesAcknowledgements

Rezensionen

Woodhouse ... demonstrates over and over again, in a series of thoughtful daily reflections on selected Psalms, that the real object is alive and forceful and ultimately "relevant": the loving God of Israel. The Tablet 20160229