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The Message of the Psalms: A Theological Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Dr. Brueggemann describes the human cries of anguish and the exultations of praise expressed in the Psalms. Particularly noteworthy is its approach to the Psalms from a counseling and pastoral perspective, providing commentary that walks with the reader in any season of life.

These psalms in various ways are expressions of creation faith. They affirm that the world is a well-ordered, reliable, and life-giving system, because God has ordained it that way and continues to preside effectively over the process. At the same time, there is a profound trust in the daily working of that system and profound gratitude to God for making it so. Creation here is not a theory about how the world came to be. That is not how the Bible thinks about creation. It is rather an affirmation
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