that all the Scriptures, including the Psalms, speak of Christ set a basis for the early church thinkers to interpret the Bible as the book about Christ (Luke 24:13–49). In the writing of The Psalms as Christian Worship, I came to realize the confessional reductionism in much contemporary biblical scholarship, which overlooks two thousand years of Christian devotion and orthodoxy (or “right worship”) in the use of the book of Psalms. It ignores the historical continuity of tradition in the communion