One objective of this study of the Psalms is to underscore the truth that Christ's church was not born on Pentecost, but existed already in the Old Testament among the people of Israel. Dr. Kloosterman highlights the communal aspect of these Psalms in the experience of faith, and demonstrates how the wide range of emotions-from ecstatic jubilation to sickening despair-form the content of the church's singing, even today. In an age of privatized religion, we need to draw near to one another. We need to walk together in a shared faith that comes from the Lord.
Dr. Nelson D. Kloosterman is married, father of five, and grandfather of eleven. Ordained to the gospel ministry in 1975, he has served as minister and professor for more than thirty years. He has taught courses on the graduate level internationally in the fields of Ethics, New Testament Studies, Preaching, and Church Polity.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree (1972, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan), and a Bachelor of Divinity degree (1975, Calvin Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan). In 1991 he obtained the Doctor of Theology (Th.D.) degree from the Theological University of the Reformed Churches (liberated) in Kampen, The Netherlands, with a dissertation in the field of Christian ethics.
In January 2011, Dr. Kloosterman began serving as Ethics Consultant and Executive Director of Worldview Resources International, a service organization whose mission is to produce and provide resources designed to assist in understanding and applying a Christian worldview to responsible living in a global culture. Areas of interest include medical ethics (beginning of life and end of life decisions), business ethics, environmental ethics (ethics of animal food production), and the relationship between Christianity and culture in general.
His expertise includes translating biblical and theological works (from Dutch to English), together with writing, speaking, and consulting in the fields of ethics mentioned above.
