The Psalms and the Life of Faith in 2020: Praise, Sorrow, Curse
John Calvin called the Psalms an anatomy of all parts of the soul. Martin Luther called the Psalms the Little Bible. This six-week series will discuss the Psalms and their role in the life of faith—ancient Israel’s and our own. Hymns of praise, psalms of lament, thanksgiving songs, and cursing psalms will be treated as a detailed anatomy of the soul and as an entry point from the little Bible to the big one.
Videos will be available each Saturday on the Adult Education Videos page.
[ezcol_1third]October 17[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]Introduction[/ezcol_2third_end]
[ezcol_1third]October 24[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]Psalms of Orientation (Hymns of Praise)[/ezcol_2third_end]
[ezcol_1third]October 31[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]Psalms of Disorientation (Psalms of Lament)[/ezcol_2third_end]
[ezcol_1third]November 7[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]Psalms of New Orientation (Thanksgiving Psalms)[/ezcol_2third_end]
[ezcol_1third]November 14[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]A Notoriously Tricky Psalm Type (Imprecatory Psalms)[/ezcol_2third_end]
[ezcol_1third]Sunday, November 22 – Live Zoom Event, 12:15 pm[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]Conclusion and Q&A[/ezcol_2third_end]
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[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]Brent A. Strawn is Professor of Old Testament and Professor of Law at Duke University. He has edited over twenty volumes to date, including The Bible and the Pursuit of Happiness: What the Old and New Testaments Teach Us about the Good Life (2012), The World around the Old Testament (2014), and the award-winning The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Law (2014). Strawn is an ordained elder in the North Georgia Conference of The United Methodist Church and regularly speaks and preaches at churches across the country. He has appeared on CNN on matters ranging from Easter celebrations to Pope Francis to gun violence, and served as both translator and member of the editorial board for The Common English Bible.[/ezcol_2third_end]