The Case for the Psalms: Why They Are Essential

N.T. Wright wants us to rediscover the spiritual treasury we call the Psalms. One of the world's most trusted and popular Bible scholars, Wright presents a manifesto for why all Christians should live and pray the Bible's Psalms in THE CASE FOR THE PSALMS

The Book of Psalms has grown increasingly unread and undervalued in churches and in people's individual spiritual practices; whereas throughout most of the church's history, they were at the core of its prayer life. Wright seeks to reclaim the power of the Psalms, arguing that by praying and living the Psalms, we enter into a world view, a way of communing with God and knowing him more intimately, and receive a map by which we understand the contours and direction of our lives. For this reason, Wright argues that all Christians need to read, pray, sing, and live the Psalms. By providing the historical, literary, and spiritual contexts for reading these hymns from ancient Israel's songbook, Wright provides the tools for incorporating these spiritual poems into our spiritual practices and into our spirituality itself.