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I have read five sections and a selection of the Psalms that he is putting into each category. Of course, his views are interesting to me. I recognize him as a great theologian. He probably exceeds my understanding, but there are a few occasions when I think he gets it a little wrong...he doesn't seem to read the Psalm as I do. Different backgrounds? No hubris on my part, he is surely the more intelligent scholar.

Certainly it seems to me that from having had to reach what is really the Voice of God in the cursing Psalms through all the horrible distortions of the human medium, I have gained something I might not have gained from a flawless, ethical exposition. The shadows have indicated (at least to my heart) something more about the light.

What I see (so to speak) in the faces of these old poets tells me more about the God whom they and we adore. ~ C.S. Lewis