Let everyone find their voice: re-imagining the Psalms for worship and devotion

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L. Francis
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Here is a book by a Church of Scotland minister immersed both in the Psalter and in the contemporary world and experiences of Christian disciples, living, working, engaging in acts of public worship, and spending time alone in meditation and prayer. In this book Lezley Stewart is re-imagining the Psalms for public worship and for private devotion. In so doing she communicates her passion for accessible and meaningful worship that connects life and faith together. The Psalter is a rich resource that captures and expresses the full range of human experience and human emotion coming face-to-face with the creator God and with the complexities and contradictions of living in the creator’s universe that is viewed as good, fallen, and redeemed. The individual Psalms were crafted in a different age and against a different tapestry of thought from that we inhabit today. Lezley Stewart is not offering fresh translation of these ancient Psalms but re-imagining them in a creative and inspirational way. Here are newly crafted Psalms grounded firmly in the tradition, and organised according to six main themes: refuge, created, lament, centre, pathway, and refreshment. My attention was caught most powerfully by the section on lamentation, drawing on Psalms 22, 55, and 77. Here we are reminded that lamentation is a release of the deepest and most profound emotion before God. Nothing is off limits in open exchange with God. True lament can be life enriching; but Lezley Stewart is well aware that those who facilitate lament must also be pastorally sensitive to how people might respond. Here is an enriching resource for public worship and for personal devotion.
让每个人都找到自己的声音:重新想象诗篇的敬拜和奉献
这是一本由苏格兰教会牧师写的书,他既沉浸在《诗篇》中,也沉浸在当代世界和基督教门徒的经历中,生活、工作、参与公共敬拜活动,也花时间独自沉思和祈祷。在这本书中,莱兹利·斯图尔特为公众崇拜和私人奉献重新想象了诗篇。通过这样做,她表达了她对将生活和信仰联系在一起的无障碍和有意义的崇拜的热情。《诗篇》是一个丰富的资源,它捕捉并表达了人类与造物主上帝面对面的所有经历和情感,以及生活在造物主的宇宙中的复杂性和矛盾,这个宇宙被视为美好的、堕落的和救赎的。每一篇诗篇都是在一个不同的时代创作的,与我们今天所居住的思想大相径庭。莱兹利·斯图尔特并没有提供这些古代诗篇的新鲜翻译,而是以一种创造性和鼓舞人心的方式重新想象它们。这里是新创作的诗篇,牢固地植根于传统,并根据六个主题组织:避难所,创造,哀叹,中心,路径和恢复。最吸引我注意力的是哀歌部分,它引用了诗篇22、55和77篇。这里提醒我们,哀号是在神面前最深沉、最深刻的情感的释放。在与上帝的公开交流中,没有什么是不允许的。真正的悲叹可以丰富人生;但莱兹利·斯图尔特很清楚,那些为悲叹提供便利的人也必须对人们的反应具有牧者的敏感性。这里是公众崇拜和个人奉献的丰富资源。
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60
期刊介绍: Rural Theology: International, Ecumenical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives is the journal of The Rural Theology Association. To join or find out about activities or future meetings of The Rural Theology Association, please visit their website. The members’ Newsletter, published twice a year, also has this information. The principal aims of the journal are to promote theological reflection on matters of rural concern, to enhance the ministry and mission of rural churches, and to bring rural issues to the forefront of church and government agenda. The journal is committed to embracing a wide range of theological perspectives, to encouraging interdisciplinary dialogue, and to stimulating ecumenical and international exchange on matters of relevance to religious, political, social and economic aspects of rurality.
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