Overview
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.
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Author: (The Revd Canon) Patrick Woodhouse
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Continuum
Dimensions:
Width: 12.40cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 19.30cm
Weight: 0.326kg
ISBN: 9781472923141
ISBN 10: 1472923146
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 03 December 2015
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"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 *"
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 *
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
Author Information
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.
