Jonathan Aitken knows a lot about being under pressure. He has been a war correspondent in Vietnam, a television presenter, the Chief Executive of TV-am and the Chairman of a City of London Merchant Bank. In politics he was an MP for 23 years, a Defence Minister and a Cabinet Minister as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Then in the mid-1990s his world fell apart when he was caught telling a lie while under oath in a high profile libel case against The Guardian and he went through his worst pressures of all - defeat, disgrace, divorce, bankruptcy and an 18-month prison sentence for perjury.

On his journey through prison Jonathan Aitken became committed to a deep spiritual faith. While in jail, and afterwards at Oxford University, where he read theology for two years, Aitken studied the Psalms and discovered in them what he calls 'deep gold seams of ancient wisdom for coping with the pressures of modern life'.

This is an account of the Psalms tried and tested in raw human emotion.

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ISBN: 9780826472755
Catalogue code: N/A
Publisher: CROSSROAD/CONTINUUM PUB G - published 15/06/2004
Format: Paperback