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Music, modernity, and God : essays in listening /

Jeremy Begbie explores how the practices of music and the discourses it has generated bear witness to some of the pivotal theological currents and counter-currents shaping modernity. Begbie argues that music is capable of yielding highly effective ways of addressing some of the more intractable theo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Begbie, Jeremy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Music, Modernity, and God: Essays in Listening; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; 1: Introduction: Listening to Music; 'MODERNITY'?; A TALE OF ORIGINS; SETTING THE SCENE; 2: Shifting Sensibilities: Calvin and Music; MUSIC, WORDS, AND THE WORD; Music's Power; Delights and Dangers; Text and Music; The Primacy of Scripture; MUSIC AND COSMOS: COMPARING CALVIN AND LUTHER; WIDER MOVEMENTS AND QUESTIONS; Returning to Geneva; 3: Disquieting Conversations: Bach, Modernity, and God; SUBJECTIVITY AND CREATIVITY; ORDER AND OPENNESS; TIME AND ETERNITY
  • Berger on Bach, Time, and EternityBerger's Time and Eternity; Bach's Theological World; Musical Witness; THE CONVERSATION CONTINUES; Rebounding Questions; 4: The Nature of Music: Rameau, Rousseau, and 'Natural Theology'; RAMEAU AND ROUSSEAU; Rameau and the 'Natural'; Rousseau and the 'Natural'; WHAT IS NATURAL ABOUT NATURAL THEOLOGY?; Nature/the Natural in Christ; MUSIC'S 'NATURAL' WITNESS; Music and Cosmos; Music and the Human; Music and Culture; Music and Renewed Reason; 5: Musical Apotheosis: Early German Romanticism; SOUNDING THE INFINITE; The Travails of Language; Music's Regeneration
  • Longing for HomeThe Music of Nature; Philosophy and Music; PROVOCATIONS; METAPHYSICS AND THEOLOGY; RETRIEVAL AND ADVANCE; Normativity; Finitude; Hope; 6: Room of One's Own? Music, Space, and Freedom; ZERO-SUM THEOLOGY; How Can God and The World Be Free Together?; How Can God and Humankind Be Free Together?; Two In One Space; Three in One Space; SOUND SPACE; Sounds as 'Secondary Objects' and 'Pure Events'; The Space of Sounds; Interpenetration; 'Coming From' and 'Coming Towards'; Resonant Order; SOUND DOCTRINE; Transcendence and Immanence Transposed; Agency in Concord
  • Christological CounterpointTrinitarian Soundings; CONCLUSION; 7: Music and God-Talk (1): Mapping the Field; MODELLING MULTIMEDIA; Direct Correspondence: Conformance; Disturbing Incongruity: Contest; Peaceful Difference: Complementation; Standing Back; PRESSING QUESTIONS; 8: Music and God-Talk (2): Interaction in Action; WHAT KIND OF PRIMACY?; Speaking and Writing Sola Gratia; Finitude, Corruption, and Meaning; MUSIC IN THE COMPANY OF THEOLOGICAL LANGUAGE; Language 'Alone'?; Constructive Musical Theology; Two Examples; A Glance Back at the Models; Is Music Being Taken Seriously Enough?