Fruit for the soul
Subtitle: Luther on the lament psalms
By: Dennis Ngien ; foreword by Robert Kolb
Contributors: Kolb, Robert, 1941- author of foreword
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9781451485219
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Bible; Laments in the Bible
Description: Given a life spent in scholarship and controversy, it is easy to forget how much energy Martin Luther devoted to helping the common person understand and take comfort from God&#x2019;s word. This commitment extended to even the most challenging of biblical texts, and nowhere is this more apparent than Luther&#x2019;s work on the lament psalms. Difficult to understand, and perhaps even more difficult to implement in life and devotion, the lament psalms played a key role in Luther&#x2019;s thought. More importantly, the lament psalms were for Luther an essential part of the Christian&#x2019;s understanding of the life of faith. In this volume, Dennis Ngien helps contemporary readers engage Luther&#x2019;s commentary on the lament psalms. What Luther intended for the education and encouragement of everyday Christians, Ngien unpacks and illuminates for life in the twenty-first century. (Publisher).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-331) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Psalm 6: consolation hidden in its opposite: profoundly terrified but profoundly comforted; title: Psalm 51: no other theme but this: wrapped in the bosom of God who is grace; title: Psalm 77: meditation on all God's works: reaping justification by faith as the fruit; title: Psalm 90: Moses being "most Mosaic": a minister of law, sin, and death; title: Psalm 94: praying against the enemies: negative capability and positive agency; title: Psalm 118: soaring above distress: the efficacy of God's right hand.