G. Geoffrey Harper
Autore di Finding Lost Words: The Church's Right to Lament (Australian College of Theology Monograph)
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G. Geoffrey Harper (PhD, Australian College of Theology) serves as Director of Research and Lecturer in Old Testament at Sydney Missionary and Bible College. He is the author of I Will Walk Among You and co-editor of Finding Lost Words: The Church's Right to Lament.
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Highlights were chapters by Rachel Ciano on a history of lament, David Burge on the place of lament in the New Testament, Rob Smith’s excellent chapter on singing lament, and Mal Gill’s two excellent chapters on praying lament and his example sermon. I also appreciated Kirk Patston’s example prayers of individual and corporate lament (p245, 247).
I found the book somewhat lacking in setting lament in its Biblical Theological context and feel there is still more work to be done in seeing how the coming of Jesus reshapes how we lament today (David Burge’s chapter was one exception, see especially p127). I felt the book stressed impact of the incarnation but not the atonement on or reading of lament. Yes God in Christ took up lament and therefore gives us permission to lament, but the atonement adds something else: it is proof that God hasn’t abandoned us - and gives us more reason to end our laments with expressions of trust and praise than the Old Testament believers. In the death and resurrection of Jesus we have an answer to Psalm 88’s questions (vv10-12) which reshapes how we read, pray and sing this psalm today. What the coming of Jesus adds to our singing lament is hope - real, solid hope.
Another issue is I felt Kit Barker’s critique of Bruce Walke’s view of the psalms as Christ’s words was lacking and needs further argument. In my opinion Waltke is correct to insist that the Psalms find their fullest expression in Christ. But at the same time I agree with Barker that the psalms are given to us today as our righteous response to our own suffering. More work is needed here.
All that be said it’s a great book and I appreciated a lot. Great work Geoff Harper and Kit Barker for assembling this.
Also check out Dieudonné Tamfu’s review on themelios. Tamfu shares my critique that “Jesus is more than a model” of lament and that the book needed more here, especially the sermons. See:
http://themelios.thegospelcoalition.org/review/finding-lost-words-the-churchs-ri...… (altro)