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Author Begbie, Jeremy

Title Theology, music, and time / Jeremy S. Begbie
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 317 pages) : music
Series Cambridge studies in Christian doctrine ; 4
Cambridge studies in Christian doctrine ; 4.
Contents Introduction. Practising music ; Music's time -- In God's good time. In God's good time ; Resolution and salvation ; Music, time and eternity ; Repetition and Eucharist -- Time to improvise. Boulez, Cage and freedom ; Liberating constraint ; Giving and giving back ; Conclusion
Summary "Theology, 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. In so doing, 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."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-302) and indexes
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Music -- Religious aspects.
Theology.
Theology
theology.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Literature & the Arts.
Music -- Religious aspects
Theology
Musik
Theologie
Theologie.
Muziek.
Musik -- Theologie.
Theologie -- Musik.
Musik -- Theologie -- Zeit.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 99051389
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