Praying the Psalms with Augustine and Friends

Acknowledgments I am grateful to Hank Voss for the opportunity to contribute the first volume in the Sacred Roots series. This project has stretched me and given me a greater appreciation for Christian Classics. Hank, your vision to make these writings more accessible to our generation is truly inspiring. I’ve enjoyed the collaboration with you and so many others. All of us involved are grateful for the generous support of the Lilly Foundation. I would not have agreed to write this book without the enthusiasm of my daughter, Eliana, who spent dozens of hours wrangling these texts into digital documents and then dozens more reworking selections to make them easier to read. Eliana, you have a gift for writing and I am grateful for your good work on this project. Without the cheerful staff at the libraries of Regent College, Prairie College, and Taylor University, and Isaiah Swain, who scanned selections from a huge stack of books, this project would have been impossible.

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