Theology, Music and TimeTheology, Music and Time aims to show how music can enrich and advance theology, extending our wisdom about God and God's ways with the world. Instead of asking: what can theology do for music?, it asks: what can music do for theology? Jeremy Begbie argues that music's engagement with time gives the theologian invaluable resources for understanding how it is that God enables us to live 'peaceably' with time as a dimension of the created world. Without assuming any specialist knowledge of music, he explores a wide range of musical phenomena - rhythm, metre, resolution, repetition, improvisation - and through them opens up some of the central themes of the Christian faith - creation, salvation, eschatology, time and eternity, Eucharist, election and ecclesiology. He shows that music can not only refresh theology with new models, but also release it from damaging habits of thought which have hampered its work in the past. |
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Contents
List of musical examples | |
List of figures | |
Acknowledgements | |
Practising music | 9 |
Musics time | 29 |
In Gods good time | 71 |
Resolution and salvation | 98 |
Music time and eternity | 128 |
Boulez Cage and freedom | 179 |
Liberating constraint | 204 |
Giving and giving back | 246 |
Conclusion | 271 |
Bibliography | 281 |
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aesthetic argue Augustine Barth beat Beethoven Boulez cadence Cage chapter characteristic chord Christian Church closure composer conception constraints context contingency created creation cresc cultural delay divine dynamic quality emotional eschatology eschaton especially eternity eucharistic example explored freedom fulfilment Gentiles gift given giving God's harmony hear human hyperbar Ibid improvisation interaction interplay intrinsic involved italics Jerome Kern Jesus Christ Jews John Tavener Jonathan Kramer kind Kramer language means melody metre metrical waves motion movement Mozart music's temporality musical improvisation musicology notes parousia particular past and future patterns Paul performance physical world piece of music play postmodern present promise reality relation repetition rhythm Rowan Williams Scruton sense Shepherd and Wicke social sonata form sound space speak Spirit Steiner structure Sudnow Symphony T. F. Torrance Tavener Tavener's tension and resolution theme theological things tion tonal music tones trinitarian unpredictable Zuckerkandl 1956