200 devotional psalms from the depths of a heart yearning for union with Jesus

In a poetic exploration of the mystery of union with God, Psalms for Jesus offers rich heart songs about the intimacy and transformation we experience when we participate in God’s love and divine nature. Bebawi, one of the world’s leading scholars on Eastern Christianity, shares profound and personal meditations on divine love and union written over many years of joys and struggles.

Drawing on scripture, theology, and his own spiritual practice, Bebawi has penned 200 reflective psalms that will stretch our traditional thinking about the perceived distance between God and humanity.  The collection explores deeply contemplative themes like: the infinite mystery of God’s divine love seen in the Incarnation and the Cross; our shared humanity with Jesus; and how when we participate in this infinite divine love, we partake in His divine nature.  In this way, these psalms gently lead us to discover how God took on humanity so that we might take on divinity.

Stirring, thought-provoking, and full of profound devotion, Psalms for Jesus is a landmark collection that leaves the reader with a truly reorienting question: What if union with Christ is much more attainable in this life than we ever thought possible?

About the Author

Dr. George Bebawi was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1938. He studied theology, Bible, church history and more at the Coptic Orthodox Theological College and received his Bachelor’s of Divinity in 1961. He was then awarded a scholarship and studied at Cambridge University, where he received his M.Lit. and PhD in 1970.

Dr. Bebawi taught theology, church history, patristic studies, and Islam at Orthodox, Evangelical, and Catholic seminaries in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States from 1970-1984. Through his devotion to church unity and ecumenical dialogue, he served on various committees of the World Council of Churches and the Secretariat for Christian Unity at the Vatican.

He returned to England in 1984 to lecture at various British universities and to teach at St. John’s College at Nottingham University from 1985-2000. He then served as the Director of Studies at the Institute for Christian Orthodox Studies at Cambridge and lectured on Islam and Judaism at the Cambridge Federation of Theological Colleges from 2000-2002. He also served as the director of the project The Jewish Roots of Christian Worship as the Faculty of Divinity at the Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies, Cambridge University.

Dr. Bebawi is internationally recognized as one of the world’s leading scholars on Eastern Christianity. He has written 66 books in Arabic and dozens of articles, and many of his lectures and writings can be found at coptology.com. This is his first book in English, as his previous works have always been focused on helping persecuted Christians in the Middle East. He retired from Cambridge University in 2004, moved to the Indianapolis, Indiana area, and was joined in marriage to May. He is the father of three young adult men and currently engages in public speaking and church ministry.

Read an in-depth interview with George in Road to Emmaus Vol. X, No. 3 (#38).