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Praying the Psalms in Christ
Laurence Kriegshauser, O.S.B.
Written centuries before Christ, the Psalms of the Hebrew Bible have been prayed by Christians since the founding of the Church. The early church fathers expounded the psalms in the light of the mystery of Christ, his death and resurrection, and his saving redemption. In this book, a Benedictine monk examines the Christian praying of the Psalms, taking into account modern and contemporary research on the Psalms. Working from the Hebrew text, Fr. Laurence Kriegshauser offers a verse-by-verse commentary on each of the one hundred and fifty psalms, highlighting poetic features such as imagery, rhythm, structure, and vocabulary, as well…
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Criminality, Public Security, and the Challenge to Democracy in Latin America
Edited by Marcelo Bergman and Laurence Whitehead
As new democratic regimes take root in Latin America, two of the most striking developments have been a dramatic rise in crime rates and increased perception of insecurity among its citizens. The contributors to this book offer a collective assessment of some of the causes for the alarming rise in criminal activity in the region. They also explore the institutional obstacles that states confront in the effort to curb criminality and build a fairer and more efficient criminal justice system; the connections between those obstacles and larger sociopolitical patterns; and the challenges that those patterns present for the consolidation of…
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All Things Yeats
In the September/October issue of the BOSTON REVIEW, Calvin Bedient’s THE YEATS BROTHERS AND MODERNISM’S LOVE OF MOTION is given a thoughtful and laudatory review. The reviewer compares UNDP/Bedient’s book favorably with Helen Vendler’s on Yeats, calling Vendler and Bedient, “two of our finest critics of poetry.” To read the full review, go here: BOSTON REVIEW.To order a copy and read more kudos, click here.
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