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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.

most clearly played out in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, but not exclusively there. I find Phil. 2:5–11 a helpful articulation of this movement. It can, without any forcing, be correlated: Orientation: “Though he was in the form of God.…” Disorientation: “[He] emptied himself.” New Orientation: “Therefore God has highly exalted him.…” I do not understand that in any ontological way and am not interested in Christological speculation. Rather, the life of Jesus, and especially the passion narrative,
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