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Psalms by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Psalms

The Prayer Book of the Bible

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Walter Brueggemann

Augsburg Fortress Publishers · Print & ebook · May 17, 2022

"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.

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Who it’s for
Bonhoeffer reads the Psalms as both ancient wisdom and a living language of prayer.
Genres
Old Testament: Poetry & Wisdom, Prayer & Devotion, Old Testament Meditations
Published
Augsburg Fortress Publishers, May 17, 2022

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"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.

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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 Eberhard Bethge.

Praying the Psalms

Bonhoeffer reads the Psalms as both ancient wisdom and a living language of prayer.

Come here for

  • A thoughtful guide to prayer through the Psalms
  • Reflections on praise, suffering, guilt, thanksgiving, and lament

Expect

  • Theological reflection rooted in Bonhoeffer’s reading of Scripture
  • Excerpts from the Psalms and an introduction by Walter Brueggemann

Where it sits

Old Testament: Poetry & Wisdom57%
Prayer & Devotion38%
Old Testament Meditations28%

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Publisher categories

  • Old Testament Meditations
  • Wisdom Literature (Bible)
Authors
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Walter Brueggemann
Publisher
Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Published
May 17, 2022
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Old Testament Meditations