Finding God in the Psalms: Sing, Pray, Live

by N. T. Wright

Publisher:

SPCK

, 2014

Overview

Most Christians know N.T. Wright as cutting-edge scholar who takes the Bible seriously and believes in traditional Christian doctrine. But N.T. Wright is also a powerfully spiritual man, just as dedicated to developing his relationship with God and others as he is to his world-class scholarship. Finding God in Psalms: Sing, Pray, Live is N.T. Wright’s spiritual manifesto in which he passionately argues that the Psalms should be placed at the center of Christian worship–as we pursue Jesus Christ. Wright believes the Psalms take us to intersection of time, space, and matter and he calls us to explore the power of their message as a Christian community.

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Key Features

• Presents the spiritual manifesto of N.T. Wright
• Explored the Psalms in an accessible way designed to promote worship
• Places the Psalms at the center of church life

Contents

• Pray and Live
• At the Threshold of God’s Time
• Where God Dwells
• All the Trees of the Forest Sing for Joy
• At Home in the Psalms
• Afterword: My Life with the Psalms

Top Highlights

“Actually, again and again it is we, muddled and puzzled and half-believing, who are the problem; and the question is more how we can find our way into their world, into the faith and hope that shine out in one psalm after another.” (Page 6)

“The Psalms, I want to suggest here, are songs and poems that help us not just to understand this most ancient and relevant worldview but actually to inhabit and celebrate it—this worldview in which, contrary to most modern assumptions, God’s time and ours overlap and intersect, God’s space and ours overlap and interlock, and even (this is the really startling one, of course) the sheer material world of God’s creation is infused, suffused and flooded with God’s own life and love and glory.” (Page 22)

“Good liturgy, whether formal or informal, ought never to be simply a corporate upsurge of emotion, however ‘Christian’, but a fresh and awed attempt to inhabit the great unceasing liturgy that is going on all the time in the heavenly realms.” (Page 6)

“God created the world in such a way that it was to be looked after by humans who reflect his image. When the humans rebelled, he did not rescind that project. Instead, he called a human family in order that they might reflect not simply his wise ordering and stewardship into the world but now also his rescuing love into that same world, disastrously flawed as it now was. Here is the ecstasy and the agony of the Old Testament: the rich, breathtaking vocation of Israel and the dark, tragic fact that this vocation, this rescue mission, was to be undertaken by a people who were themselves in sore need of the very same rescue.” (Pages 52–53)

Praise for the Print Edition

Prayer is an act of rebellion. In this incisive and fresh look at the book of Psalms, Wright invites us to enter an alternative world-view that the Psalms embody. Let this book lead you to the Psalms – but beware, it’s the wardrobe door into a new world order.

—Scot McKnight, professor of New Testament, Northern Seminary

Product Details

• Title: Finding God in the Psalms: Sing, Pray, Live
• Author: N. T. Wright
• Publisher: SPCK
• Print Publication Date: 2014
• Logos Release Date: 2015
• Pages: 208
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. O.T. Psalms › Criticism, interpretation, etc
• ISBNs: 9780281069897, 9780281069934, 0281069891, 028106993X
• Resource ID: LLS:FNDNGGDPSLMS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:00:51Z

About N. T. Wright

Nicholas Thomas “Tom” Wright (1948–) is a New Testament scholar, Pauline theologian, and Anglican bishop and currently Research Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Early Christianity at St. Mary's College in the University of St Andrews and Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. Christianity Today named him one of today's top theologians. 

Wright was born in Morpeth, Northumberland, and recounts an awareness of God's presence from a young age—and that relationship with God ever since is reflected in his life and work. He's a prolific author; one of his most popular books, Surprised by Hope, frames the resurrection of the dead as the appropriate hope for all believers rather than an overemphasis on just "going to heaven when you die." He's among the leading theologians in the New Perspective on Paul debate. Wright has several honorary doctoral degrees, and in 2014, the British Academy awarded him the Burkitt Medal "in recognition of special service to biblical studies." In 2015, he was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Wright served as chaplain at Cambridge from 1978 to 1981, then as assistant professor of New Testament language and literature at McGill University in Montreal. Before becoming a chaplain, tutor, lecturer, and fellow at Oxford in 1986, Wright served as dean of Lichfield Cathedral, canon theologian of Westminster Abbey, and the bishop of Durham from 2003–10. In addition to the entire New Testament for Everyone Series, some of N. T. Wright's books include The New Testament in Its World: An Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology of the First Christians, Who Was Jesus, The New Testament and the People of God, God and the Pandemic, Evil and the Justice of God, Surprised by Hope, and Simply Christian. He coauthored Jesus the Final Days with Craig A. Evans.