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The Psalms: The Voice of Humanity

Posted in Bible, Books, Theological Reflections, tagged , , on August 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »

We always think that the Bible as God’s voice addressing us. However, in Praying the Psalms, Walter Brueggemann believes that The Psalms with few exceptions are not the voice of God speaking to us but rather it is the voice of humanity addressing God… many of them complaints toward God.
The Psalms with a few exceptions, [...]

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Praying the Psalms: Preface

Posted in Bible, Books, theology, tagged on August 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In the preface of the book, Praying the Psalm, Brueggeman laments the fact that scholarly works on the book of Psalms reached its pinnacles in the work of Gunkel and Mowinckel and after them there seems to be no further scholarship that link Psalms to the life of the church. There have been important [...]

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Praying the Psalms

Posted in Books, tagged on August 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I have not read a book straight for some time. One of the reasons is I find myself unable to concentrate on what I am reading.  I see and read the words but the meaning escaped me. Perhaps it is because of the noise of the children or other more important concerns are distracting me [...]

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Streams of Mercy

Posted in Books, tagged on October 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

This blog is still under construction. I haven’t much time to work in it and still have no idea on what direction this blog will take and what kind of posts you will read here. For the meantime, I will be posting some of do stuff I have been doing in my other [...]

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Bits and pieces

Posted in Books, Personal Notes, theology on August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I find myself unusually tired and busy this week. It’s Friday and I didn’t even notice it. I am teaching three hours a day and maybe I am spending the same hours in preparation. I am aware that my new job as bus driver is taking too much of my time. I am actually [...]

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Happy days!

Posted in Ben Myers, Books on August 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

A long week of rain makes you long for the sun. However, when the sun stays out longer than usual, the humidity causes a lot of discomforts. This makes everyone feels moody and irritable. This was evident when my wife and I went picking up the children for the school and daycare. Most of them [...]

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What a joyful day!

Posted in Bauckham, Books, Guttierez, Moltmann, Muller-Fahrenholz on November 22, 2006 | 7 Comments »

This is a joyful day for me. The books from a good friend have arrived at this very moment and I could not hold back my self from posting about it. Now I feel like a child who has been given a lot of toys and Iam so excited that I don’t know which [...]

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