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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... created world. Without assuming any specialist knowledge of music, he explores a wide range of musical phenomena ... creation, salvation, eschatology, time and eternity, eucharist, election and ecclesiology. In so doing, he shows that ...
... created world. Without assuming any specialist knowledge of music, he explores a wide range of musical phenomena ... creation, salvation, eschatology, time and eternity, eucharist, election and ecclesiology. In so doing, he shows that ...
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... creation, Trinity, incarnation and so forth. Many gain their main theological benefit from music by listening to ... created temporality, redeemed by God in Jesus Christ, and what it means to live in. 7. The one major exception I have ...
... creation, Trinity, incarnation and so forth. Many gain their main theological benefit from music by listening to ... created temporality, redeemed by God in Jesus Christ, and what it means to live in. 7. The one major exception I have ...
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... to various theological fields: the reality and goodness of the world's temporality, created and redeemed in Christ (chapter 3); eschatology (with. 9. Sloboda (1993), 253ff. 2. In this book Ishall use 'tone' to denote any Introduction 7.
... to various theological fields: the reality and goodness of the world's temporality, created and redeemed in Christ (chapter 3); eschatology (with. 9. Sloboda (1993), 253ff. 2. In this book Ishall use 'tone' to denote any Introduction 7.
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Jeremy S. Begbie. temporality, created and redeemed in Christ (chapter 3); eschatology (with special attention to musical resolution)(chapter 4); time and God's eternity (with particular reference to the music of John Tavener)(chapter 5 ...
Jeremy S. Begbie. temporality, created and redeemed in Christ (chapter 3); eschatology (with special attention to musical resolution)(chapter 4); time and God's eternity (with particular reference to the music of John Tavener)(chapter 5 ...
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... created it, as if it were our task to recover the content of the artist's emotional state when he or she was composing. Thousands of pieces bear little or no resemblance to the composer's emotional condition at the time of composition ...
... created it, as if it were our task to recover the content of the artist's emotional state when he or she was composing. Thousands of pieces bear little or no resemblance to the composer's emotional condition at the time of composition ...
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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