Evaluating liturgical engagement with Psalms of lament: Reading Psalm 74 through the lenses of feeling and thinking

Francis, L.J., Holdsworth, J. and Village, A. (2024) Evaluating liturgical engagement with Psalms of lament: Reading Psalm 74 through the lenses of feeling and thinking. Pastoral Psychology. ISSN 0031 2789

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Abstract

Recent trends in biblical scholarship that have generated new interest in the Book of Psalms and in the voice of lamentation may in turn present new opportunities for the liturgical use of Psalms of lamentation. Drawing on the SIFT approach to biblical hermeneutics, the present study tests the ways in which feeling types and thinking types may evaluate Psalm 74 differently. The data demonstrated that feeling types and thinking types approach a Psalm of lament in quite different ways. For thinking types this is a satisfying intellectual exercise. They are caught up by the theological questions raised and fascinated by the capacity of the human mind to challenge God to keep God’s side of the covenantal agreement with the people. For feeling types this is a journey of the heart as they identify with the protagonists rehearsing the source and cause of their pain. This is the contrast of which preachers and liturgists need to be aware.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Published by Springer Nature in 2024. This is an author accepted manuscript of a published open access article available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11089-024-01172-5. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. Copyright © 2024, The Author(s)
Keywords: empirical theology biblical hermeneutics psychological type theory biblical lamentation
Depositing User: Ursula Mckenna
Date Deposited: 09 Dec 2024 11:39
Last Modified: 09 Dec 2024 11:39
URI: https://bgro.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/1188

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