Interpretation is tricky business. Music and art are among the most
difficult 'texts' to interpret. And yet, today more than ever, the
media are bombarding us with sounds and images that desperately
need imaginative Christian minds to interpret. Is it possible to
find traces of the transcendent in contemporary culture? Do we
perhaps even find Christian modes of expression where we would
least expect them? Or should Christians take a far more critical
interpretive stance toward contemporary cultural art forms than
they generally do? Consisting of three main sections, this
collection of essays first asks how we should interpret the cosmos
and the biblical story of salvation. The second part deals
specifically with questions surrounding music and worship. The
final section deals with the interpretation of contemporary art and
mass media. This collection of essays is a helpful guide for those
who are willing to engage the imagination as they face tough
interpretive questions, particularly in the areas of music and the
arts. Contributors to this volume: Jeremy Begbie . John L. Bell .
Hans Boersma Dennis R. Danielson . Laurel Gasque . Wayne L. Roosa
Quentin J. Schultze . Diane Sekuloff . James K.A. Smith Hans
Boersma (Th.D., University of Utrecht) is associate professor of
religious and worldview studies at Trinity Western University. He
has been appointed to the J. I. Packer Chair of Theology at Regent
College. Boersma is also the organizer of the annual LambLight
Lecture series sponsored by the Geneva Society and the author or
editor of several books, including A Hot Pepper Corn: Richard
Baxter's Doctrine of Justification in Its Seventeenth-Century
Context of Controversy and Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross:
Reappropriating the Atonement Tradition.
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