The appearance of the book Reflections on the Psalms eagerly expecting a good few months. I enjoyed the thought that the next item beloved author proudly stand on the top shelf bookcase home. The title caused a lot of emotions for me. It was hard to predict what really lies behind it.
CS Lewis is the author of a literate for every the subject in a way that absorbs the reader. Of course, I believed that it will be so this time. But I was afraid something else. Namely, that the temptation to it an in-depth analysis of biblical texts. Starts to decompose into prime factors psalms, so that reading may become too difficult. If Lewis has decided on such a thorough treatment, the reader like me probably would have lost its way soon. However, this great writer in his works has never been so meticulous and demanding. Certainly he was aware of the limited knowledge of many readers. I never was for them as unforgiving as the least for their students who will have the right to not mention him too nice.
In Considerations about the psalms Lewis reassures already in the introduction. Implies that the psalms feels like an amateur. "I write for the unlearned about things which he does not learned." Of course, it is difficult to determine now how much this statement is true. But after it can be concluded that the Considerations about the psalms that we should meet Lewis, you already know well. Niewdającego into the details, writing a warm, intelligible to all language.
Lewis does not interpret the psalms line by line. Focuses on the recurring motifs in many songs. Such as the Last Judgement, death, nature. What is perhaps most striking in its descriptions approach is thinking of the ancient Jews and Christians today. Lewis shows what are the essential differences between these two groups. These differences are key to the literal interpretation of the psalms and finding in them a second, more universal meaning. Lewisowskiej interpretation is accompanied by specific sense of humor, to which many of us already accustomed. Can be for example consider the nature of Divine Judgement. Lewis wonders what kind of a criminal proceeding-if he could but civil.
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