By expressing their faith through poetic idiom, the psalmists conferred upon the theological enterprise an intrinsic quality which conventional Judaism and institutional Christendom in a later age have generally ignored.  A creed is to be sung as a doxology, not signed as a didactic or legal document.  The professional artists of the Zion ceremonies were authentic theologians, for they refused to separate the sense of wonder from their intellectual reflection.  They adored their God with the aesthetics of the rational and the emotional mind.  They were therefore able to bring together a belief in the purpose of life in the world and their trust in a personal creator.  The link between the Yahweh of their cosmogony and the Yahweh of their self-integration resulted directly from their theology of presence.  Their savior was their creator.  Trust empowered them to articulate their curiosity for truth together with their sense of well-being.