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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.

and being changed, finding ourselves surprised by a new circumstance we did not expect, resistant to a new place, clinging desperately to the old circumstance. So we will suggest that the life of faith expressed in the Psalms is focused on the two decisive moves of faith that are always underway, by which we are regularly surprised and which we regularly resist.17 One move we make is out of a settled orientation into a season of disorientation. This move is experienced partly as changed circumstance,
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