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Wednesday 24 October 2007

The Psalms

http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=872
Fr Neuhaus, over at First Things (I could be a regular reader, perhaps even a subscriber if it weren't for the relentless and almost relentlessly wrong, political apologia of FT,) on the Psalms, a blurb about what sounds like some excellent exegesis, seems, improbably to have told a whopper.
Or perhaps, it's just a bit of wishful thinking.
Or perhaps it's his good fortune to be a convert, and to have had interaction with a smaller proportion of people suffering under a far too common misapprehension in contemporary Catholic circles.
To whit:
[The Psalms] are to be prayed in the light of the fullness of God’s revelation in Christ. Most Christians know that that is the way we are supposed to pray the psalms,
Hopefully it is becoming less common, but there are far too many Biblical "scholars" and Catholic "theologians" who think it is wrong-headed and possibly anti-Semitic to think of the Psalms as holding any meaning beyond that imputed to them by the Jews, and that the mere suggestion of Christological significance in the Psalms is to be stamped out, often by the banning of the word "man," or of masculine pronouns from translations.
Ooooh.... or was their concern for the integrity of the Jewish meaning of the Psalms feigned to advance another agenda, the excising of "sexist" language from the Bible?
Nah, that would be dishonest.

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