The Psalms: Songs of Tragedy, Hope, and Justice Spirituality & Prayer_ Spirituality "The deeply moving story of

"The deeply moving story of the dire (if ultimately triumphant) course of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's life

The Cross and the Lynching Tree (Winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Religion)

While covering standard issues such as literary formation of the biblical texts and their religious themes

serving the sick

that have been marginalized in standard histories of Christianity

The Psalms: Songs of Tragedy, Hope, and Justice Spirituality & Prayer_ Spirituality "The deeply moving story of"A clarion call to those who read and repeat the words of the Psalms, to receive and understand them as marching orders in the campaign for human rights and dignity. Only in this way can [their] full meaning be grasped and appropriated in our day." David Noel Freedman "By bringing together this urgency for justice and the gains of genre analysis, Pleins offers a reading of the Psalms that is responsive to the socio political impulses all around us,