Life in the Psalms: Contemporary Meaning in Ancient Texts: The Mowbray Lent Book 2016

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(The Revd Canon) Patrick Woodhouse

Life in the Psalms

Contemporary Meaning in Ancient Texts: The Mowbray Lent Book 2016

(The Revd Canon) Patrick Woodhouse

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Bloomsbury Continuum
12 February 2016

Religion & beliefs; Old Testaments

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.

By: (The Revd Canon) Patrick Woodhouse
Imprint: Bloomsbury Continuum
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 193mm, Width: 124mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 326g
ISBN: 9781472923141
ISBN 10: 1472923146
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 12 February 2016
Audience: General/trade , General/trade , ELT Advanced , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Life in the Psalms: Contemporary Meaning in Ancient Texts: The Mowbray Lent Book 2016

"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 *"