The Psalms and the Life of Faith

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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 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. 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.