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The Psalms have long served a vital role in the individual and corporate lives of Christians, expressing the full range of human emotions, including some that we are ashamed to admit. The Psalms reverberate with joy, groan in pain, whimper with sadness, grumble in disappointment, and rage with anger. The church fathers employed the Psalms widely. In liturgy they used them both as hymns and as Scripture readings. Within them they found pointers to Jesus both as Son of God and as Messiah. They also employed the Psalms widely as support for other New Testament teachings, as counsel on morals, and as forms for prayer. Especially noteworthy was their use of Psalms in the great doctrinal controversies. The Psalms were used to oppose subordinationism, modalism, Arianism, Apollinarianism, Nestorianism, Eutychianism, and Monophysitism, among others. More than fifty church fathers are cited in the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture volume from Ambrose to Zephyrinus. From the British Isles, Gaul, and the Iberian Peninsula, we find Hilary of Poitiers, Prudentius, John Cassian, Valerian of Cimiez, Salvian the Presbyter, Caesarius of Arles, Martin of Bruga, Braulio of Saragossa, and Bede. From Rome and Italy, we find Clement, Justin Martyr, Callistus, Hippolytus, Novatian, Rufinus, Maximus of Turin, Peter Chrysologus, Leo the Great, Cassiodorus, and Gregory the Great. Carthage and North Africa are represented by Tertullian, Cyprian, Augustine, and Fulgentius. Fathers from Alexandria and Egypt include Clement, Origen, Dionysius, Pachomius, Athanasius, Cyril, and Poemen. Constantinople and Asia Minor supply the Great CappadociansBasil the Great and the two Gregorys, from Nazianzus and Nyssaplus Evagrius of Pontus and Nicetas of Remesiana. From Antioch and Syria we find Ephrem, John Chrysostom, Theodore of Mopsuestia, Theodoret of Cyr, Philoxenus of Mabbug, Sahdona, and John of Damascus. Finally, Jerusalem, Palestine and Mesopotamia are represented by Eusebius of Caesarea, Aphrahat, Cyril, Jacob of Sarug, Jerome, and Isaac of Nineveh. Readers of these selections, some of which appear here for the first time in English, will glean from a rich treasury of deep devotion and profound theological reflection.

Find Me Happy is a narrative about how, through&quote;fifteen years of climbing a mountain and one second of reaching the summit&quote; AK Phillips made a realisation that might truly change the way we look at happiness, forever.During his teenage yearsPhillips found himself to be a regular companion of melancholy. As his world ebbed and flowed, the constant swim against life's current gradually got the better of him and as he grew into his mid twenties the romanticism of melancholy was replaced by the silent suffocation of depression. His toe-to-toe tussle with hopelessness often became a bitter fist fight and despite the regular bloody noses, he believed it was a fight he needed to take on his own. Faced with chasing another false dawn in the form of a new formulaic happiness, he ripped everything up and started again from somewhere new.Having spent just over a decade and a half buying into the various types of salvation on offer, from embracing a religion to believing a secret, Philips understands what it is to yearn for some sort of salvation. When that salvation comes in the form of happiness, a true happiness which is accessible to anyone who wants it, he knew he had to put his thoughts into words.This book isn't about waving a magic wand. It is about appreciating that life is as much about being aware of the journey as it is about reaching any single destination. It is about making yourself aware of the consequences of your actions or lack of actions and allowing yourself to make choices based upon the 'here and now'. This book is about breaking free from that which we hide behind and forgiving ourselves for the mistakes we made in the past.Happiness has often been sold as a commodity, through a set of rules or strategies, or by the involvement in a faith, but through&quote;Find Me Happy&quote; Phillips shows how your answers might lie in a far simpler place. He asks,&quote;If feeling in love generally makes us feel happier and feeling happy means that we perceive things more positively, then is the key to happiness simply to love yourself?&quote; We'll let you decide that one for yourself.This book is available exclusively throughwww.findmehappy.com, Amazon orwww.troubador.co.uk/matador