Resonant Witness

by Begbie, Jeremy S.; Guthrie, Steven R.

• ISBN13: 9780802862778
• ISBN10: 0802862772
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-10
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

Resonant Witness gathers together a wide, harmonious chorus of voices from across the musical and theological spectrum to show that music and theology can each learn much from the other - and that the majesty and power of both are profoundly amplified when they do. With essays touching on J. S. Bach, Hildegard of Bingen, Martin Luther, Karl Barth, Olivier Messiaen, jazz improvisation, South African freedom songs, and more, this volume encourages musicians and theologians to pursue a more fruitful and sustained engagement with one another. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Jeremy S. Begbie is Thomas A. Langford Research Professor of Theology at Duke Divinity School and senior member at Wolfson College, Cambridge. His other books include Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music. Steven R. Guthrie is associate professor of theology and director of the Religion and the Arts program at Belmont University. He is also author of the forthcoming book Creator Spirit: The Holy Spirit and the Art of Becoming Human.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Music and Cosmos
Augustine and the Art of Music	p. 27
Material: Philip the Chancellor and the Reception of Aristotle's Physics	p. 46
"So Faith Comes from What Is Heard": The Relationship between Music and God's Word in the First Two Centuries of German Lutheranism	p. 65
Created Beauty: The Witness of J. S. Bach	p. 83
On Music, Mathematics, and Theology: Pythagoras, the Mind, and Human Agency	p. 109
Music and Culture
Music as the Mouthpiece of Theology	p. 137
The Shock of the Positive: Olivier Messiaen, St. Francis, and Redemption through Modernity	p. 162
Quasi Una Sonata: Modernism, Postmodernism, Religion, and Music	p. 190
Music and Theology
The Integration of Music and Theology in the Vocal Compositions of J. S. Bach	p. 215
"Parables" and "Polyphony": The Resonance of Music as Witness in the Theology of Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer	p. 240
Musical Time and Eschatology	p. 271
Improvising Texts, Improvising Communities: Jazz, Interpretation, Heterophony, and the Ekklesia	p. 295
Music and Worship
Faithful Feelings: Music and Emotion in Worship	p. 323
Music for the Love Feast: Hildegard of Bingen and the Song of Songs	p. 355
The Wisdom of Song	p. 382
The Truth Shall Set You Free: Song, Struggle, and Solidarity in South Africa	p. 408
The Singing of Jesus	p. 434
Afterword	p. 454
Contributors	p. 464
Glossary of Musical Terms	p. 471
Index	p. 481
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