Psalms
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“Greatly enjoyed the psalms episode. Dietrich Bonhoeffer (quoted in Michael Jenkins “In The House of the Lord”) offers this observation “Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power.”
While the psalter is not completely lost to the American evangelical community, the sad truth is that a major group of psalms (the laments) have been lost. Among others, Walter Brueggemann has written extensively on this topic.
“It is a curious fact that the church has, by and large, continued to sing songs of orientation in a world increasingly experienced as disoriented…It is my judgment that this action of the church is less an evangelical defiance guided by faith, and much more a frightened, numb denial and deception that does not want to acknowledge or experience the disorientation of life… At least it is clear that a church that goes on singing "happy songs" in the face of raw reality is doing something very different from what the Bible itself does.”
In a letter to his son Christopher in 1945, J.R.R. Tolkien echoes this need to recover the practice of lament. “... while Genesis is separated by we do not know how many sad exiled generations from the Fall, but certainly there was an Eden on this very unhappy earth. We all long for it, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most humane, is still soaked with the sense of ‘exile’.””Read full review »
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