Music, Modernity, and God
Title | Music, Modernity, and God PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Begbie |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0199292442 |
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 theological problems and dilemmas of modernity.
Theology, Music, and Modernity
Title | Theology, Music, and Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Begbie |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 2021-02-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 019884655X |
Theology, Music, and Modernity addresses the question: how can the study of music contribute to a theological reading of modernity? It has grown out of the conviction that music has often been ignored in narrations of modernity's theological struggles. Featuring contributions from an international team of distinguished theologians, musicologists, and music theorists, the volume shows how music--and discourse about music--has remarkable powers to bring to light the theological currents that have shaped modern culture. It focuses on the concept of freedom, concentrating on the years 1740-1850, a period when freedom--especially religious and political freedom-became a burning matter of concern in virtually every stratum of Western society. The collection is divided into four sections, each section focusing on a key phenomenon of this period--the rise of the concept of 'revolutionary' freedom; the move of music from church to concert hall; the cry for eschatological justice in the work of black hymn-writer and church leader Richard Allen; and the often fierce tensions between music and language. There is a particular concern to draw on a distinctively 'Scriptural imagination' (especially the theme of New Creation) in order to elicit the key issues at stake, and to suggest constructive ways forward for a contemporary Christian theological engagement with the legacies of modernity today.
Theology, Music, and Modernity
Title | Theology, Music, and Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Begbie |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2021-02-02 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0192585703 |
Theology, Music, and Modernity addresses the question: how can the study of music contribute to a theological reading of modernity? It has grown out of the conviction that music has often been ignored in narrations of modernity's theological struggles. Featuring contributions from an international team of distinguished theologians, musicologists, and music theorists, the volume shows how music—and discourse about music—has remarkable powers to bring to light the theological currents that have shaped modern culture. It focuses on the concept of freedom, concentrating on the years 1740-1850, a period when freedom—especially religious and political freedom-became a burning matter of concern in virtually every stratum of Western society. The collection is divided into four sections, each section focusing on a key phenomenon of this period—the rise of the concept of 'revolutionary' freedom; the move of music from church to concert hall; the cry for eschatological justice in the work of black hymn-writer and church leader Richard Allen; and the often fierce tensions between music and language. There is a particular concern to draw on a distinctively 'Scriptural imagination' (especially the theme of New Creation) in order to elicit the key issues at stake, and to suggest constructive ways forward for a contemporary Christian theological engagement with the legacies of modernity today.
Music, Modernity, and God
Title | Music, Modernity, and God PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Begbie |
Publisher | |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780191747007 |
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 theological problems and dilemmas of modernity.
The Theological Origins of Modernity
Title | The Theological Origins of Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Allen Gillespie |
Publisher | ReadHowYouWant.com |
Pages | 762 |
Release | 2010-10-21 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1459606124 |
Taking as his starting point the collapse of the medieval world, Gillespie argues that from the very beginning moderns sought not to eliminate religion but to support a new view of religion and its place in human life- and that they did so not out of hostility but in order to sustain certain religious beliefs. He goes on to explore the ideas of such figures as William of Ockham, Petrarch, Erasmus, Luther, Descartes, and Hobbes, showing that modernity is best understood as the result of a series of attempts to formulate a new and coherent metaphysics or theology.
Resounding Truth
Title | Resounding Truth PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Begbie |
Publisher | Baker Academic |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2007-12 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0801026954 |
A world-renowned scholar and musician helps Christians respond with theological discernment to music.
After Modernity-- What?
Title | After Modernity-- What? PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas C. Oden |
Publisher | Zondervan |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0310753910 |
This vigorous and incisive critique of modernity lights the path to recovering the revitalizing heritage of classical Christianity.