Singing the Songs of the Lord in Foreign Lands: Psalms in Contemporary Lutheran Interpretation
COVER -- IMPRESSUM -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- I. HERMENEUTICAL APPROACHES AND CHALLENGES -- Luther's Early Interpretation of the Psalms and his Contribution to Hermeneutics -- "Protect me from those who are Violent." Psalm 140: A Cry for Ju...
| Summary: | COVER -- IMPRESSUM -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- I. HERMENEUTICAL APPROACHES AND CHALLENGES -- Luther's Early Interpretation of the Psalms and his Contribution to Hermeneutics -- "Protect me from those who are Violent." Psalm 140: A Cry for Justice-a Song of Hope -- II. PSALMS EXEGESIS: METHODOLOGIES PAST AND PRESENT -- Singing, Praying and Meditating the Psalms. Exegetical and Historical Remarks -- From Psalms to Psalter Exegesis -- III. DIFFICULT TOPICS IN PSALMS AND THEIR LUTHERAN INTERPRETATION -- The Topic of Violence-A Hermeneutical Challenge in Reading Psalms -- Between Praise and Lament. Remarks on the Development of the Hebrew Psalms -- The Vengeance Psalms as a Phenomenon of Critical Justice: The Problem of Enemies in Luther's Interpretation of Psalms -- IV. PSALMS FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THEIR RECEPTION IN THE NEW TESTAMENT -- Psalms Outside the Biblical Psalms Collection-the Example of Jonah -- Interpretation of the Psalms in the New Testament: Witness to Christ and the Human Condition -- The Christological Reception of Psalms in Hebrews -- V. LUTHER'S INTERPRETATION OF THE PSALMS FROM A CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE -- Luther and the Psalms: How Stories Shape the Story -- The Psalms and Luther's Praise Inversion: Cultural Criticism as Doxology Detection -- Theology of the Word in "Operationes in Psalmos" (1519-1521) -- VI. CONTEXTUAL APPROACHES TO THE PSALMS -- Being 'ādām: A Contextual Reading of the Psalms Today -- The Wounds of War: Engaging the Psalms of Lament in Pastoral Care with Veterans Against the Background of Martin Luther's Hermeneutics -- Luther's Poetic Reading of Psalms -- AUTHORS |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (273 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-3-374-03865-7 |