The Psalms: Songs of Tragedy, Hope, and Justice Spirituality & Prayer_ Spirituality serving the sick

serving the sick

While covering standard issues such as literary formation of the biblical texts and their religious themes

that have been marginalized in standard histories of Christianity

He is author of The Perfectability of Human Nature in Eastern and Western Throught (SUNY Press)

The Psalms: Songs of Tragedy, Hope, and Justice Spirituality & Prayer_ Spirituality serving the sick"A clarion call to those who read and repeat the words of the Psalms, to receive and understand them as marching orders in the campaign for human rights and dignity. Only in this way can [their] full meaning be grasped and appropriated in our day." David Noel Freedman "By bringing together this urgency for justice and the gains of genre analysis, Pleins offers a reading of the Psalms that is responsive to the socio political impulses all around us,