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Psalms of the Faithful: Luther’s Early Reading of the Psalter in Canonical Context is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Psalms of the Faithful Brian German shows us Luther’s reappraisal of the plain sense of Scripture. By following the canonical shaping of the Psalter, Luther refined his interpretive principles into a more finely grained hermeneutic. Luther inspires us to read the Psalms empathetically with ancient Israelites and early church fathers. He stirs us up to join the “faithful synagogue” in praying...

As both content and speaker, Christ is thus the true literal sense of each and every psalm; “Christ is the text,” as Ebeling was known to say.14 In order to justify such a title, Luther begins by listing five scriptural passages in which Christ himself, on Luther’s ear, exhorts the very approach being advocated. Jesus has told us that he is the door (John 10:9), the key of David (Rev 3:7), the “roll of the book” (Ps 40:7), the beginning (John 8:25), and the “I” who speaks in Isaiah (Isa 52:6). A
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