Inclusive Yet Discerning

by Brown, Frank Burch

• ISBN13: 9780802862563
• ISBN10: 080286256X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-13
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

Worshiping communities today have access to more arts and styles from more times and places than ever before. In this volume Frank Burch Brown explores how Christians can navigate this increasingly diverse world of worship. / Brown combines an abiding admiration of classical idioms with an appreciation of new possibilities for the arts in worship. Interacting with a wide range of religious thinkers and leaders from Augustine and John Calvin to Rick Warren, Marcus Borg, and the Pope he addresses questions concerning "good" art and "good" music for worship. / A lively and thought-provoking book, Inclusive yet Discerning is permeated by Browns wide-ranging knowledge and deep love of the arts and his desire to articulate a theological aesthetic that, as he says, "will have teeth but not fangs."

Author Biography

Frank Burch Brown is Frederick Doyle Kershner Professor of Religion and the Arts at Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, and the Alexander Campbell Visiting Professor of Religion and the Arts the University of Chicago Divinity School. His previous books include the award-winning Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste.

Table of Contents

Series Preface	p. viii
Permissions	p. xii
Author's Preface	p. xiii
Navigating Worship Artfully: Finding a Compass	p. 3
Enjoyment and Discernment in the Music of Worship	p. 26
Singing Together (with All Christian): Worship?	p. 47
Is Good Art Good for Chistian Worship?	p. 63
Christian Music: More than Just the Words	p. 89
Religious Music and Secular Music: A Calvinist Perspective, Re-formed	p. 99
On Not Giving Short Shift to the Arts in Liturgy: The Testimony of Pope Benedict XVI (Cardinal Ratzinger)	p. 114
On Being Beautiful and Religious at the Same Time: Reviving Plotinus	p. 129
Index	p. 152
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