God's Song and Music's Meanings: Theology, Liturgy, and Musicology in Dialogue

ISBN-13: 9781472478641 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 196 str.

James Hawkey; Ben Quash

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The public making of music in our society happens more often in the context of chapels, churches and cathedrals than anywhere else. The command to sing and make music to God makes music an essential part of the DNA of Christian worship. Taking seriously the practice and not just the theory of music, this ground-breaking collection of essays establishes a new standard for the interdisciplinary conversation between theology, musicology and liturgical studies. Framed by two substantive essays by leading theologians with a profound interest in music, the book's four main sections will address questions about the history, the performance, the contexts, and the nature of music, as Christians understand it. It will show how any serious discussion of music opens onto considerations of time, tradition, ontology, anthropology, providence, and the nature of God.

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Preface, Vernon White  Part 1: The Meanings of Music in Western History  1 Mellifluous Music in Early Western Christianity, Carol Harrison  2 ‘We Prefer Gods We Can See’: Music’s Mediations Between Seen Things and God in the Patristic and Medieval Periods, Nancy van Deusen  3 Hearing Revelation: Music and Theology in the Reformation, Jonathan Arnold  4 Music, Atheism, and Modernity: Aesthetics, Morality, and the Theological Construction of the Self, Gareth Wilson  Part 2: The Work of Worship and the Meanings of Music  5 The worship of God and the quest of the Spirit: ‘Contemporary’ versus ‘Traditional’ Church Music, Gordon Graham  6 Musical Promiscuity: Can the Same Music Serve Sacred and Profane Ends Equally Well? Lucy Winkett  7 Mixing their Musick: Worship, Music, and Christian Communities, James Hawkey  Part 3: The Meanings of Music and the Mystery of God  8 The Malleable Meanings of Music, John Butt  9 The Material, the Moral and the Mysterious: Three Dimensions of Music, Ben Quash  10 Absolute Music / Absolute Worship, Daniel K.L. Chua  11 Afterword, Jeremy S. Begbie