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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... (especially biblical hermeneutics), and the same goes for the visual arts. There have been some courageous forays into theology by musicologists,1 but apart from a few notable exceptions, twentieth-century theologians paid scant ...
... (especially biblical hermeneutics), and the same goes for the visual arts. There have been some courageous forays into theology by musicologists,1 but apart from a few notable exceptions, twentieth-century theologians paid scant ...
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... especially qualified to deal, and this entails some musical analysis. The sections in a contrasting (sans serif) typeface are designed for those who can read music and are accustomed to some of the basic vocabulary of musicology, and ...
... especially qualified to deal, and this entails some musical analysis. The sections in a contrasting (sans serif) typeface are designed for those who can read music and are accustomed to some of the basic vocabulary of musicology, and ...
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... especially so if one thinks globally. See Sparshott (1987), 43ff. or situation. In the Western tonal tradition, musical works, so. 2. In this book Ishall use 'tone' to denote any discrete pitched sound that is recognised as musical. 3 ...
... especially so if one thinks globally. See Sparshott (1987), 43ff. or situation. In the Western tonal tradition, musical works, so. 2. In this book Ishall use 'tone' to denote any discrete pitched sound that is recognised as musical. 3 ...
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... especially on Alasdair MacIntyre, that musical practices are intrinsically 'social practices' (Wolterstorff 1987). 18. This should make us cautious about the more unguarded claims made for the 'New' musicology. A significant stream of ...
... especially on Alasdair MacIntyre, that musical practices are intrinsically 'social practices' (Wolterstorff 1987). 18. This should make us cautious about the more unguarded claims made for the 'New' musicology. A significant stream of ...
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... especially by repeated hearing? Models of similarity or resemblance by themselves tend to be too static, allowing little room for what would seem to be a complex interaction between our emotional life and music. Roger Scruton has ...
... especially by repeated hearing? Models of similarity or resemblance by themselves tend to be too static, allowing little room for what would seem to be a complex interaction between our emotional life and music. Roger Scruton has ...
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