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The biblical themes of creation and new creation are inextricably
bound to each other. For the God who created the world is the same
God who recreates humanity in Jesus Christ and the same God who
promises a new heaven and a new earth. How might the relationship
between creation and new creation be informed by and reflected in
the arts? This volume, based on the DITA10 conference at Duke
Divinity School, brings together reflections from theologians,
biblical scholars, and artists to offer insights on God's first
work, God's future work, and the future of the field of theology
and the arts. The Studies in Theology and the Arts series
encourages Christians to thoughtfully engage with the relationship
between their faith and artistic expression, with contributions
from both theologians and artists on a range of artistic media
including visual art, music, poetry, literature, film, and more.
Art is often viewed as being inherently spiritual. But what does it
mean to describe an experience of art or beauty as "spiritual"? Is
there a relationship between the spiritual experience a person has
in the presence of a work of art and the Holy Spirit of Christian
faith? Skilled theologian, musician, and educator Steven Guthrie
examines areas of overlap between spirituality, human creativity,
and the arts with the goal of sharpening and refining how we speak
and think about the Holy Spirit. By exploring various connections
between art and spirituality, he helps Christians better understand
the doctrine of the Holy Spirit and offers a clear, engaging
theology of the arts. The book includes a foreword by renowned
theologian and musician Jeremy Begbie.
Preaching and music are both regular elements of Christian worship
across the theological spectrum. But they often don't interact or
inform each other in meaningful ways. In this Dynamics of Christian
Worship volume, theologian, pastor, and musician Noel A. Snyder
considers how the church's preaching might be helpfully informed by
musical theory. Just as a good musical composition employs
technical elements like synchrony, repetition, and meter, the same
should be said for good preaching that seeks to engage hearts and
minds with the good news of Jesus Christ. By drawing upon music
that lifts the soul, preachers might craft sermons that sing. The
Dynamics of Christian Worship series draws from a wide range of
worshiping contexts and denominational backgrounds to unpack the
many dynamics of Christian worship-including prayer, reading the
Bible, preaching, baptism, the Lord's Supper, music, visual art,
architecture, and more-to deepen both the theology and practice of
Christian worship for the life of the church.
An introduction to the theology of art and the art of theology with
a foreword by Colin Gunton.
How can the arts witness to the transcendence of the Christian God?
It is widely believed that there is something transcendent about
the arts, that they can awaken a profound sense of awe, wonder, and
mystery, of something "beyond" this world. Many argue that this
opens up fruitful opportunities for conversation with those who may
have no use for conventional forms of Christianity. Jeremy Begbie-a
leading voice on theology and the arts-in this book employs a
biblical, trinitarian imagination to show how Christian involvement
in the arts can (and should) be shaped by a vision of God's
transcendence revealed in the person of Jesus Christ. After
critiquing some current writing on the subject, he goes on to offer
rich resources to help readers engage constructively with the
contemporary cultural moment even as they bear witness to the
otherness and uncontainability of the triune God of love.
Theology, Music, and Modernity addresses the question: how can the
study of music contribute to a theological reading of modernity? It
has grown out of the conviction that music has often been ignored
in narrations of modernity's theological struggles. Featuring
contributions from an international team of distinguished
theologians, musicologists, and music theorists, the volume shows
how music-and discourse about music-has remarkable powers to bring
to light the theological currents that have shaped modern culture.
It focuses on the concept of freedom, concentrating on the years
1740-1850, a period when freedom-especially religious and political
freedom-became a burning matter of concern in virtually every
stratum of Western society. The collection is divided into four
sections, each section focusing on a key phenomenon of this
period-the rise of the concept of 'revolutionary' freedom; the move
of music from church to concert hall; the cry for eschatological
justice in the work of black hymn-writer and church leader Richard
Allen; and the often fierce tensions between music and language.
There is a particular concern to draw on a distinctively
'Scriptural imagination' (especially the theme of New Creation) in
order to elicit the key issues at stake, and to suggest
constructive ways forward for a contemporary Christian theological
engagement with the legacies of modernity today.
When the story of modernity is told from a theological perspective,
music is routinely ignored - despite its pervasiveness in modern
culture and the manifold ways it has been intertwined with
modernity's ambivalent relation to the Christian God. In
conversation with musicologists and music theorists, in this
collection of essays Jeremy Begbie aims to show that the practices
of music and the discourses it has generated bear their own kind of
witness to some of the pivotal theological currents and
counter-currents shaping modernity. Music has been deeply affected
by these currents and in some cases may have played a part in
generating them. In addition, Begbie argues that music is capable
of yielding highly effective ways of addressing and moving beyond
some of the more intractable theological problems and dilemmas
which modernity has bequeathed to us. Music, Modernity, and God
includes studies of Calvin, Luther and Bach, an exposition of the
intriguing tussle between Rousseau and the composer Rameau, and an
account of the heady exaltation of music to be found in the early
German Romantics. Particular attention is paid to the complex
relations between music and language, and the ways in which
theology, a discipline involving language at its heart, can come to
terms with practices like music, practices which are coherent and
meaningful but which in many respects do not operate in
language-like ways.
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