Keeping Faith with the Psalms: Deepen Your Relationship with God Using the Book of Psalms

by Daniel F. Polish PhD

Overview

Explore your spiritual life. Create a personal theology. Challenge and test your faith—all using the Book of Psalms.

The Book of Psalms has been beloved by generations of readers. It offers solace in times of trouble, holds out hope for rescue and redemption and helps to answer some of the difficult questions raised by faith. The Book of Psalms is more personal than other books of the Bible; instead of telling stories with God as the central actor, the psalmists talk to—and about—God.

Keeping Faith with the Psalms leads you into the Bible to discover ways you can use the Psalms to shape your own personal spiritual outlook. Daniel Polish does not give any simple solutions, but reveals how you can discover answers for yourself through the Psalms. You will explore:

• Meeting God in Nature
• Finding God in Torah
• Finding God through the Historical Experience of the Jewish People
• The Problem of Evil in Our World
• Facing Our Mortality
• Finding Our Relationship with God
• Jerusalem as Symbol and Reality
• What Does the Lord Require? The Call to Social Justice

Through the threads of meaning, questions, and perspectives offered in the psalms themselves, Rabbi Polish's guide offers an intimate look at the issues that touch and influence your personal theology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781580233002
Publisher:	TURNER PUB CO
Publication date:	10/01/2005
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	1,078,421
Product dimensions:	2.36(w) x 3.54(h) x 1.06(d)

About the Author

Daniel F. Polish, PhD, frequently teaches interfaith audiences at the Center for Religious Inquiry at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York City. He is author of Talking about God: Exploring the Meaning of Religious Life with Kierkegaard, Buber, Tillich and Heschel (SkyLight Paths); Bringing the Psalms to Life: How to Understand and Use the Book of Psalms and Keeping Faith with the Psalms: Deepen Your Relationship with God Using the Book of Psalms (both Jewish Lights), and has been a congregational rabbi for over thirty years.

Daniel F. Polish is available to speak on the following topics:

• Jewish-Christian Relations: Accomplishments and Challenge
• How to Make the Psalms Work for You
• What Can Four Great Modern Theologians Tell Us About Our Religious Lives?
• Jewish Religion and the Traditions of the East
• Abraham, the Father of Three Faiths

Table of Contents

Introduction

PART I
THE QUEST FOR GOD: USING THE PSALMS TO KNOW GOD
Searching for the Presence of God
1 Meeting God in Nature
2 Finding God in Torah
3 Finding God through the Historical Experience of the Jewish People

PART II
THE QUEST FOR INSIGHT: USING THE PSALMS TO UNDERSTAND OUR FAITH
4 The Problem of Evil in Our World
5 Facing Our Mortality
6 Finding Our Relationship with God

PART III
THE QUEST FOR COMMITMENT: USING THE PSALMS TO LIVE OUR FAITH
7 Jerusalem as Symbol and Reality
8 What Does the Lord Require? The Call to Social Justice

A Personal Afterword
Index of Scriptural References