Following excerpt from recent
CT interview with N. T. Wright regarding his new book,
The Case for the Psalms: Why They Are Essential.
How can the Psalms transform us?
Within the Jewish and Christian traditions, you get your worldview sorted out by worship. The Psalms are provided to guide that worship. When we continually pray and sing the Psalms, our worldview will actually reconfigure according to their values, theology, and modes of expression. It's not that the Psalter gives us "Five Rules for Constructing Your Worldview." But it does embody the worldview that is to shape the people of God. And somebody who is regularly exposed to certain media forms (like a sequence of films, or a radio talk show with a particular bias) will begin seeing the world through those ideas and values.
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