The Psalms: Songs of Tragedy, Hope, and Justice Spirituality & Prayer_ Spirituality author of the highly praised

author of the highly praised three-volume History of Christian Thought and other major works

Judith Plaskow

serving the sick

He is author of The Perfectability of Human Nature in Eastern and Western Throught (SUNY Press)

The Cross and the Lynching Tree (Winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Religion)

The Psalms: Songs of Tragedy, Hope, and Justice Spirituality & Prayer_ Spirituality author of the highly praised"A clarion call to those who read and repeat the words of the Psalms, to receive and understand them as marching orders in the campaign for human rights and dignity. Only in this way can [their] full meaning be grasped and appropriated in our day." David Noel Freedman "By bringing together this urgency for justice and the gains of genre analysis, Pleins offers a reading of the Psalms that is responsive to the socio political impulses all around us,