The Music of Theology

ISBN-13: 9780367902445 / Twarda / 2024 / 232 str.

Laurens ten Kate

Opis

This book reconceives theology as a musical endeavour in critical tension with language, space and silence.

Spis treści

Overture

1 The Language of Music: Losing Theology

2 The Space of Music: The Self between Lost and Found

3 Silence: Music as Strained Freedom

Coda

Bibliography

O autorze

Andrew W. Hass is Reader in Religion at the University of Stirling, Scotland. His research is situated at the intersection of Religion, Theology, Philosophy, and the Arts, with ongoing emphasis on Critical Theory and Hermeneutics. He is the author of many publications including Poetics of Critique: The Interdisciplinarity of Textuality (2003); Auden’s O: The Loss of One’s Sovereignty in the Making of Nothing (2013); and Hegel and the Art of Negation (2014).

Laurens ten Kate is an Associate Professor in Philosophy and Religious Studies and an Endowed Professor of Liberal Religion and Humanism at the University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, the Netherlands. He has written widely on Religion including, Flight of the Gods: Philosophical Perspectives on Negative Theology; Re-treating Religion (2000) and Deconstructing Christianity with Jean-Luc Nancy (2012).

Mattias Martinson is full Professor of Systematic Theology and Studies in Worldviews and Dean of the Faculty of Theology at Uppsala University, Sweden. His main research interests are cultural theology, atheism in theological perspective, critical theory and continental philosophy. He has published widely on these topics including the monograph Perseverance without Doctrine. Adorno, Self-critique and the Ends of Academic Theology (2000).