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Psalms : the Prayer Book of the Bible by Dietrich Bonhoeffer; Walter Brueggemann; James H Burtness is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is Psalms : the Prayer Book of the Bible about?
"A valuable guide to these joyful, angry, beautiful, and difficult 'earthly prayers' that allow us. . . a deep human connection to the God who remains with us and will not abandon us." —Kathleen Norris, author of Dakota, The Cloister Walk, and Acedia & Me Jesus died with a psalm on his lips. For millennia, humans have been shaped by the Psalms. And before the Nazis banned him from publishing, German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer published this book on the Psalms. What comfort is found in the Psalter? What praise, and what challenge? What threat? In the pages of Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible, discover the richness this book of Scripture held for Bonhoeffer, and learn to pray psalms along with Christ. First published in 1940, this classic reveals how the Psalms are essential to the life of the believer and offers Bonhoeffer's reflections on psalms of thanksgiving, suffering, guilt, praise, and lament. Now with an introduction by Walter Brueggemann and excerpts from the Psalms, Bonhoeffer's timeless work offers contemporary readers ancient wisdom and resources for the living of these days. Includes a biographical sketch of Bonhoeffer written by his friend and biographer Eberha
Who reads Psalms : the Prayer Book of the Bible?
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- Author
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer; Walter Brueggemann; James H Burtness
- Publisher
- 1517 Media; Broadleaf Books
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781506480190
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Religion, Literary Fiction, Christian
- Rating
- 4.29 / 5 (32 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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