Resounding Truth

by Begbie, Jeremy S.

• ISBN13: 9780801026959
• ISBN10: 0801026954
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-01
• Publisher: Baker Academic

Summary

From the iPod to the car radio, from movie soundtracks to Muzak at the shopping mall, from singing in the shower to the concert arena, music is an unavoidable part of our lives. Not only is music ubiquitous, it is powerful: creating moods, evoking memories and images, uniting people, and providing an outlet of expression for even the most tone deaf among us. Besides its prominent position in culture, music has obviously had a key role in the worship of God's people.

Author Biography

Jeremy S. Begbie (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is honorary professor of theology at the University of St. Andrews; associate principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge; and an affiliated lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. A notable pianist, he has lectured widely in the UK, the US, and South Africa. He is the author of Voicing Creation's Praise: Towards a Theology of the Arts and Theology, Music, and Time and the editor of Beholding the Glory: Incarnation through the Arts and Sounding the Depths: Theology through the Arts.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	p. 9
Acknowledgments	p. 11
Introduction	p. 13
Music in Action
What Are We Talking About?	p. 29
Music in Action in Biblical Times	p. 59
Encounters
Music and God's Cosmic Order: The Great Tradition	p. 77
A Sixteenth-Century Trio	p. 97
Wise beyond Words	p. 119
Three Musical Theologians	p. 141
Two Theological Musicians	p. 163
Music in a Christian Ecology
A Christian Ecology	p. 185
Music in God's World	p. 211
Music in God's Calling	p. 237
Singular Powers	p. 277
Conclusion	p. 305
Notes	p. 309
Bibliography	p. 361
Scripture Index	p. 393
Name Index	p. 397
Subject Index	p. 407
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