Keeping Faith with the Psalms: Deepen Your Relationship with God Using the Book of Psalms
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.
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Book details
- Author
- Daniel F. Polish, PhD
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 304
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Religion › Judaism › Sacred Writings
Religion › Biblical Studies › Old Testament - Topics
- Jewish spirituality · personal theology · Old Testament · prayer and worship · faith and doubt
- ISBN-13
- 9781580233002 (Paperback)9781683361657 (Hardcover)
About the author
DANIEL F. POLISH, PhD, has served as a congregational rabbi for over thirty years and frequently teaches interfaith audiences at the Center for Religious Inquiry at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York City. His books include Keeping Faith with the Psalms, Bringing the Psalms to Life and Talking about God: Exploring the Meaning of Religious Life with Kierkegaard, Buber, Tillich and Heschel.
When not writing, Polish teaches on topics ranging from Jewish-Christian relations and the Psalms to modern theology and the traditions of the East. His work reflects a sustained engagement with interfaith dialogue and the spiritual resources of the Jewish tradition.