Reflections on the Psalms - Softcover

Lewis, C. S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006245684 ISBN 13: 9780006245681

Publisher: Fount, 1993

Synopsis

A consideration of the psalms which emphasises their informal nature and relates them to ancient Judaic religion, the age of Christ, and to our experience of them in the modern world.

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‘Absolutely packed with wisdom’.
Archbishop Trevor Huddleston

From the Back Cover

" We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. "
The Psalms were written as songs; we should read them as poetry, in the spirit of lyric, not as sermons or instructions. But they are also shrouded in mystery, and in this careful reading from one of our most trusted fellow travelers, C.S. Lewis helps us begin to reveal their meaning in our daily lives and in the world. Reflecting again and anew on these beloved passages, we can find both joy and difficulty, but also, always, real enlightenment and moments of transcendent grace.
"This book may not tell the reader all he would like to know about the Psalms, but it will tell him a good deal he will not like to know about himself." "Times Literary Supplement"
"[Lewis] . . . displays in this volume the same keen insight and gifted tongue that have made him one of the most highly respected essayists using the English language." "Chicago Sunday Tribune"
"Full of illuminating observations." "New York Times"
C. S. (Clive Staples) Lewis (1898 1963), one of the great writers of the twentieth century, also continues to be one of our most influential Christian thinkers. He wrote more than thirty books, both popular and scholarly, including The Chronicles of Narnia series, "The Screwtape Letters," "The Four Loves," "Mere Christianity," and "Surprised by Joy."
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Edition details

• Publisher: Fount
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0006245684
• ISBN 13: 9780006245681
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128