Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Meditations on Psalms

Brief Description: Eloquent, incisive, encouraging, and challenging--Bonhoeffer invites readers to find in the Psalm both a path toward rest in God and a call to Christ-like living as followers of the Lord Jesus. Brief Description: A one-volume collection of legendary author Dietrich Bonhoeffer's profound and influential meditations on the Psalms, previously untranslated. Jacket Description/Back: 'The only way to understand the Psalms is on your knees, the whole congregation praying the words of the Psalms with all its strength.' ---Dietrich Bonhoeffer At the time of his execution by the Nazis in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was not quite forty years old. Yet already, his influence as a theologian was felt not only in Germany, but throughout the world. His interactions with the Psalms reveal a passionate heart and brilliant mind grappling with the Bible's eternal truths and their application to human nature and temporal realities. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Meditations on Psalms is vintage Bonhoeffer: eloquent, incisive, encouraging, challenging, inviting us to find in the Psalms both a path toward repose in God and a call to Christlike living and practical action as followers of the Lord Jesus. Also available Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Prison Poems Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Christmas SermonsTable of Contents: Contents 9 Prologue 13 Sermon to the Preachers Seminar, Psalm 127 23 Sermon to the German-Speaking Congregation, Psalm 62 33 Harvest Festival Sermon, Psalm 63 43 Morning Address during an Ecumenical Conference, Psalm 85 53 Sermon on God s Righteous Anger, Psalm 58 67 Meditations from the Losungen, Psalms 41; 104; 25; 20; 71 75 Kristallnacht (Crystal Night), Psalm 74 81 With Eyes Wide Open---Meditations, Psalm 119 99 Selections from Ethics, Psalms 9; 107; 148 105 Letter to the Brethren at Finkenwalde, Psalm 100 111 The Prisoner, Psalm 47 117 Meditation from the Losungen for May 29, 1944, Psalm 94 123 Meditations from the Losungen for June 7 and 8, 1944, Psalms 54; 34 133 The Plot That Failed: Letters to Eberhard and Renate Bethge Various, Psalms 139 The, Psalms Echoed in Bonhoeffer s Poetry, Psalms 3; 47; 70 149 The End---and a Beginning: More Poetry, Psalm 22 157 Sources"Marc Notes: Originally published: My soul finds rest. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, c2002.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 157). Review Citations:

Christian Advance 09/01/2005 pg. 74 (EAN 9780310267034, Paperback)

Contributor Bio:  Bonhoeffer, Dietrich Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was a renowned and beloved Christian minister, seminary professor, and theologian who was imprisoned and later executed by the Nazis for his resistance to Hitler. He was the author of the bestselling classic The Cost of Discipleship, Life Together, and Letters and Papers from Prison. Contributor Bio:  Robertson, Edwin Translator and editor Edwin H. Robertson as born in London, England, in 1912, of Scottish parents. For many years involved in broadcasting and communications, he is the author of a number of books, notably on the Bible, broadcasting, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He is the minister of Heath Street Baptist Church in Hampstead, London, England.