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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... distinctive features of sound-perception challenge the 'zero-sum game' which he rightly sees as endemic in much theology (the more active God is in the world the less active we can be). Francis Watson's recent and curiously over ...
... distinctive features of sound-perception challenge the 'zero-sum game' which he rightly sees as endemic in much theology (the more active God is in the world the less active we can be). Francis Watson's recent and curiously over ...
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... distinctive way in which they operate.7 Ihave chosen to concentrate on one major dimension of music, its temporality. Music is, of course, a temporal art. But beneath this apparently straightforward assertion lie many layers of ...
... distinctive way in which they operate.7 Ihave chosen to concentrate on one major dimension of music, its temporality. Music is, of course, a temporal art. But beneath this apparently straightforward assertion lie many layers of ...
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... distinctive configurations of the physical world we inhabit. The entities of the extra-human physical world vibrate in certain ways and produce certain kinds of sound waves in accordance with their constitution. This very obvious point ...
... distinctive configurations of the physical world we inhabit. The entities of the extra-human physical world vibrate in certain ways and produce certain kinds of sound waves in accordance with their constitution. This very obvious point ...
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... each other. Music does indeed engage with the physical world we inhabit, but in its own way. Bodily make-up is indeed deeply implicated in music, but in a distinctive way. Music does Practising music 19 Music's distinctiveness.
... each other. Music does indeed engage with the physical world we inhabit, but in its own way. Bodily make-up is indeed deeply implicated in music, but in a distinctive way. Music does Practising music 19 Music's distinctiveness.
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... distinctive contribution to make to theology precisely because it is a distinctive human practice.24 My concern in this book is to explore only one main feature of this distinctiveness, namely music's temporality and its theological ...
... distinctive contribution to make to theology precisely because it is a distinctive human practice.24 My concern in this book is to explore only one main feature of this distinctiveness, namely music's temporality and its theological ...
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