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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... 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.
... 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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... realities of music. And throughout this book we shall be stressing that these practices entail a peculiarly intense involvement with time, with the world's temporality. By contrast, our culture has schooled many of us into thinking of ...
... realities of music. And throughout this book we shall be stressing that these practices entail a peculiarly intense involvement with time, with the world's temporality. By contrast, our culture has schooled many of us into thinking of ...
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... reality (as in Debussy's La Meror Musorgsky's Pictures at An Exhibition). It can be made to interact with extra-musical narrative or sequence of events (as in Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel or Paul Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice) ...
... reality (as in Debussy's La Meror Musorgsky's Pictures at An Exhibition). It can be made to interact with extra-musical narrative or sequence of events (as in Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel or Paul Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice) ...
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... reality – no matter how individualistically produced, no matter how autonomous with respect to intended function, now matter how intertwined with the circumstances of a particular composer. Among other things, this means recognising the ...
... reality – no matter how individualistically produced, no matter how autonomous with respect to intended function, now matter how intertwined with the circumstances of a particular composer. Among other things, this means recognising the ...
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... realities will be traced. However, it needs to be said that the links are often extremely hard to trace with any precision. Most promising are attempts to discover correspondences or parallels between the structures of music and the ...
... realities will be traced. However, it needs to be said that the links are often extremely hard to trace with any precision. Most promising are attempts to discover correspondences or parallels between the structures of music and 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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