Theology, Music and Time

by Begbie, Jeremy S.

• ISBN13: 9780511037504
• ISBN10: 0511037503
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-07-24
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Theology, Music and Time aims to show how music can enrich and advance theology, extending our wisdom about God and God's ways with the world. Instead of asking: what can theology do for music?, it asks: what can music do for theology? Jeremy Begbie argues that music's engagement with time gives the theologian invaluable resources for understanding how it is that God enables us to live 'peaceably' with time as a dimension of the created world. Without assuming any specialist knowledge of music, he explores a wide range of musical phenomena - rhythm, metre, resolution, repetition, improvisation - and through them opens up some of the central themes of the Christian faith - creation, salvation, eschatology, time and eternity, Eucharist, election and ecclesiology. He shows that music can not only refresh theology with new models, but also release it from damaging habits of thought which have hampered its work in the past.

Table of Contents

Musical Examples	p. x
List of Figures	p. xii
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
Practising Music	p. 9
Music's Time	p. 29
In God's Good Time	p. 69
In God's Good Time	p. 71
Resolution and Salvation	p. 98
Music, Time and Eternity	p. 128
Repetition and Eucharist	p. 155
Time to Improvise	p. 177
Boulez, Cage and Freedom	p. 179
Liberating Constraint	p. 204
Giving and Giving Back	p. 246
Conclusion	p. 271
Bibliography	p. 281
Index of Names	p. 303
Index of Biblical Versess	p. 307
General Index	p. 309
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