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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... cultures, the unprecedented availability and ubiquity of music in so-called 'postmodern' culture, the persistence of music in the ... cultural and anthropological, there is relatively little analytic attention to musical sounds and their ...
... cultures, the unprecedented availability and ubiquity of music in so-called 'postmodern' culture, the persistence of music in the ... cultural and anthropological, there is relatively little analytic attention to musical sounds and their ...
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... cultures primarily shaped by modern Europe. It is the tradition of Beethoven and Bach, as well as the Spice Girls and Michael Jackson. To restrict ourselves in this way does not commit us to a cultural hegemony which automatically ...
... cultures primarily shaped by modern Europe. It is the tradition of Beethoven and Bach, as well as the Spice Girls and Michael Jackson. To restrict ourselves in this way does not commit us to a cultural hegemony which automatically ...
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... cultural embeddedness of musical practices. It is not sound-patterns alone which mean but people who mean through producing and receiving sound-patterns in relation to each other. The bête noire here is 'essentialism': treating music as ...
... cultural embeddedness of musical practices. It is not sound-patterns alone which mean but people who mean through producing and receiving sound-patterns in relation to each other. The bête noire here is 'essentialism': treating music as ...
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... cultural practices, but the waters here are very muddy, and we have to admit that some commonly quoted accounts of music in relation to cultural concerns have been very tenuous. Furthermore, it is wise to resist a social reductionism ...
... cultural practices, but the waters here are very muddy, and we have to admit that some commonly quoted accounts of music in relation to cultural concerns have been very tenuous. Furthermore, it is wise to resist a social reductionism ...
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... cultural shaping. We might add that to over-play the socio-cultural card will likely result in the matter of aesthetic value being dissolved too quickly into matters of social utility or function. There is a justifiable attack on the ...
... cultural shaping. We might add that to over-play the socio-cultural card will likely result in the matter of aesthetic value being dissolved too quickly into matters of social utility or function. There is a justifiable attack on the ...
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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aesthetic argue Augustine Augustine’s Barth beats Beethoven Boulez cadence Cage chapter characteristic chord Christian Christology Church closure composer conception constraints context contingency created creation cultural delay distinctive divine dynamic quality emotional eschatology eschaton especially eucharistic example explored freedom fulfilment Gentiles gift given giving harmony hear human hyperbar Ibid improvisation interaction interplay intrinsic involved Jesus Christ Jews John Tavener Jonathan Kramer Jürgen Moltmann kind Kramer language means melody metre metrical waves motion movement Mozart music’s temporality musical improvisation musicology Myitalics natural theology notes parousia particular past and future patterns Paul Paul’s performance physical world piece of music play postmodern present promise reality relation repetition rhythm rhythmic Ridley Hall Rowan Williams Scruton sense Shepherd and Wicke social sound space speak Spirit Steiner structure Sudnow Tavener Tavener’s tension and resolution theme theological things tion tonal music tones trinitarian unpredictable Zuckerkandl 1956