The Ethics of the Psalms

Sunday, November 11, 2012
Veterans Day
10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

What is the ethical content of the Psalms, and how is their instruction conveyed? These are the questions behind the new Sunday class, “The Ethics of the Psalms,” which began September 16. Visitors welcome any Sunday at 10 a.m. on the 5th floor.

This week’s topic:
“Other laws in the Psalms”–in particular, the teaching of the Psalms about violence, retribution, and the poor and needy. Fr Austin will speak about the “lex talionis” (an eye for an eye), and we will look even at some of the imprecatory verses (such as the final two verses of Psalm 137–which begins with such aching beauty!), and see what praying/reading/singing the Psalms would teach us even in these difficult lines.

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