Psalter for Christian Worship
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We lift up the psalms to God as our prayers. We borrow the language of these ancient texts, and they become our works. We are not secondhand recipients of Gods word but communicants actively in... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
ISBN:1571530266
ISBN13:9781571530264
Release Date:May 1999
Publisher:Witherspoon Pr
Length:186 Pages
Weight:0.72 lbs.
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Psalter for Christian Worship
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 14 years ago
This collection of Psalms is worded beautifully. Having been searching, when I found this, for musical settings of Psalms, I was disappointed to find there was no music, but rather text only. This book was listed as a resource in a document I had used, but the listing did not indicate the source of the tune used with the text from this book. It will still be a very useful volume.
Metrical versions of the Psalms
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
This book provides the texts for singing the psalter to familar tunes. The versification is conservative, retaining the 2nd person familar "thy", "thou" of the best-loved English translations. The result is familar but not forced verses that scan easily into familar tunes. Indexes include suggested hymn tunes and liturgical use (calendar).There is a brief introduction giving the history of the reformation Psalters within the Church of Scotland context. This is so brief that it has little value and, in fact, detracts from the book by demonstrating the author's lack of knowledge in regards to the plain song tradition of the psalter. Nonetheless, this is a resource will worth having for anyone with need to use psalms in prayer or song.
New Psalm paraphrases a valuable resource
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Michael Morgan, organist at Central Presbyterian in Atlanta, has painstakingly paraphrased all 150 Psalms beautifully capturing the sense and style of each with a poetry that makes them mean something in our vernacular. This book may be read as devotional poetry, or sung to popular hymntunes. Mr. Morgan has included an index of meter and suggested tunes that will encourage congregational singing. While using inclusive language, the texts do not suffer from a forced lack of pronouns (as so many biblical texts do) but are very true to the original psalmists intent. This is a powerful and important gift to the church at large and should be on the shelf of every minister and church musician.
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