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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... Paul Spicer, Nigel Swinford, Stephen Sykes, John Tavener, Anthony Thiselton, Rowan Williams and Tom Wright. Much of what follows arose from my experience teaching outside the UK. I have greatly benefited from discussions with friends ...
... Paul Spicer, Nigel Swinford, Stephen Sykes, John Tavener, Anthony Thiselton, Rowan Williams and Tom Wright. Much of what follows arose from my experience teaching outside the UK. I have greatly benefited from discussions with friends ...
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... Paul Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice). A musical phrase or passage may be employed to indicate a character or event in, say, a music-drama of some sort (as so often in Wagner). Units of music, from motifs to whole pieces, can come to ...
... Paul Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice). A musical phrase or passage may be employed to indicate a character or event in, say, a music-drama of some sort (as so often in Wagner). Units of music, from motifs to whole pieces, can come to ...
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Contents
II In Gods good time | 69 |
III Time to improvise | 177 |
Bibliography | 281 |
Index of names | 303 |
Index of biblical verses | 307 |
General index | 309 |
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