Brueggemann, Walter. <br/><br/>
The psalms and the life of faith / 
 Psalms & the life of faith. 
Walter Brueggemann ; edited by Patrick D. Miller. 
 - xviii, 292 pages ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction / Patrick D. Miller -- Part One: The Psalms as prayer and praise -- Psalms and the life of faith: A suggested typology of function -- The Psalms as prayer -- From hurt to joy, from death to life -- The formfulness of grief -- The costly loss of lament -- Praise and the Psalms: A politics of glad abandonment. Part Three: Interpreted Psalms -- Psalms 9-10: A counter to conventional social reality -- Psalm 37: Conflict of interpretation -- Psalm 77: The turn from self to God -- Psalm 109: Steadfast love as social solidarity. Part Two: Covenant and canon as context -- Prayer as an act of daring dance: Four biblical examples -- Covenanting as human vocation: The relation of the Bible and pastoral care -- "Impossibility" and epistemology in the faith tradition of Abraham and Sarah (Genesis 18:1-15) -- Bounded by obedience and praise: The Psalms as canon. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0800627334 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>95021448 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Bible.--Psalms--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BS1430.2  / .B783 1995 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>223.2 Brueggemann