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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...

is grasped by those who can see and receive insight.”22 One should note in passing, however, that for Faber the true literal sense is the “spiritual,” while for Luther it is here called the “prophetical.”23 In order to get a better hold on what exactly Luther means by “literal” (and hence “prophetical”) in his preface, we may lastly draw on his examples of how he would speak of Christ as the subject matter throughout Psalms 1; 2 and 3. With reference to the “literal,” Luther includes the following
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