The conflict of faith and experience in the Psalms [[electronic resource] ] : a form-critical and theological study / / Craig C. Broyles

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453689903321
• Autore: Broyles Craig C
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Sheffield, England, : JOST Press, c1989
• ISBN: 1-281-84206-0; 9786611842062; 0-567-43453-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Collana: Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; ; 52
• Disciplina: 223.2066; 223/.2066
• Soggetti: Faith; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; 1. THE SEARCH FOR THE BEST VIEW: A PROPOSAL FOR PSALMS INTERPRETATION; 2. PSALMS OF PLEA AND PSALMS OF COMPLAINT; 3. AN ANALYSIS OF THE COMPLAINT EXPRESSIONS; 4. THE DISTRESSES REFLECTED IN COMPLAINT PSALMS; 5. THE INTERPRETATION OF DISTRESS IN COMPLAINT PSALMS; 6. THE COMPLAINTS OF THE COMMUNITY; 7. THE COMPLAINTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL; 8. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS; Notes; Bibliography
• Sommario/riassunto: In a penetrating analysis, Broyles breaks open the category of the psalms of 'lament', arguing that this conventional grouping encloses two quite different kinds of psalms. Not only are there the psalms of 'plea', which affirm the praise of God and belong theologically on the side of faith, but there are a darker group, the psalms of 'protest' or 'complaint', which depict God as absent or hostile. These psalms portray the conflict between the traditions of faith and the religious experience of the psalmist. The study, a revision of the author's Sheffield PhD thesis, thus proposes a realignment