Essential Expositions of the Psalms: Classroom Resource Edition

Saint Augustine

Sep 2018 · New City Press

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Essential Expositions of the Psalms is a collection distilled from the 6-volume set in the Works of Saint Augustine. As the psalms are a microcosm of the Old Testament, so the Expositions of the Psalms can be seen as a microcosm of Augustinian thought. In the Book of Psalms are to be found the history of the people of Israel, the theology and spirituality of the Old Covenant, and a treasury of human experience expressed in prayer and poetry. So too does the work of expounding the psalms recapitulate and focus the experiences of Augustine's personal life, his theological reflections and his pastoral concerns as Bishop of Hippo.

About the author

Augustine of Hippo (354-430) is one of the greatest thinkers and writers of the Western world. After he converted to Christianity he became bishop of Hippo in North Africa, where he was influential in civil and church affairs. His writings have had a lasting impact on Western philosophy and culture.

Michael Cameron is Associate Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Portland in Oregon and was the inaugural Thomas F. Martin Saint Augustine Fellow at Villanova University, Pennsylvania in 2010. He is the author of Christ Meets Me Everywhere: Augustine’s Early Figurative Exegesis (Oxford University Press, 2012). Besides articles in Studia Patristica, Augustinian Studies, and the Augustinus-Lexikon, he is Latin Patristics editor for The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception.

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