Enlivening Faith: Music, Spirituality and Christian Theology

ISBN-13: 9781788746205 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 426 str.

June Boyce-Tillman; Stephen Roberts; Jane Erricker

Opis

The relationship between Christian theology and music has been complex since the early days of the Church. The search for the soul led to an increasing body of literature in on spirituality. This book is an attempt to open up a conversation between these related discourses, with contributions reflecting a range of perspectives within them.

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Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgements xi

Introduction 1

Prelude

Terry Biddington

1 Music, spirituality and prayer: A chaplain reflects on the possibilities for being 17

Musicking

Brian Inglis

2 Musical composition and mystical spirituality 25

June Boyce-Tillman

3 The Western audience as congregation 45

Nancy L. Graham

4 Spirituality by Heart 67

Wilfrid Jones

5 A new liturgical movement forward: Testing the reform of the reform through music 83

Interlude One

Sister Aileen CSC

6 Spirituality and music in the religious life: A Religious reflects 117

Musical Listening in a Troubled World

Gregory Clifton Smith

7 'Listen ... with the ear of your heart': Music and pastoral care 127

Susan Quindag

8 It is well with my soul: How spiritual music is relationship despite racism 145

Alexander Westmacott

9 Songs of soil, tracts of land: An agritheological analysis of the harvest section of Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1861 163

Helena Mary Kettleborough

10 Music and spirituality within planet and cosmos: Exploring the contribution of music to sharing the ideas of Thomas Berry 181

Interlude Two

Stephen B. Roberts

11 Learning theology through music: A homiletic reflection 211

Fabian Lochner

19 What angels? Gregorian chant and spiritual meaning in a secular world: Reflections on an artistic collaboration between Gregorian chant ensemble Schola Nova Silvana and British poet Hilary Stobbs 349

Postlude

June Boyce-Tillman

20 Sermon on music: A priest preaches 389

Notes on contributors 401

Index 409

O autorze

The Rev Dr June Boyce-Tillman MBE is Professor of Applied Music at the University of Winchesterand has published widely on music education, including an edited book on spirituality andmusic education. She is an Extra-ordinary Professor at North West University, South Africa, andan Anglican priest and honorary chaplain to Winchester Cathedral.Stephen B. Roberts is an academic theologian, Anglican priest and amateur musician based inCardiff. He has published in each of these areas and is currently investigating the relationshipbetween how difference is negotiated in music and religion.Jane Erricker was Associate Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Winchester.She has published widely in the field of spirituality, including jointly authoring and editingthe books The Education of the Whole Child, Reconstructing Religious and Spiritual and MoralEducation and Contemporary Spiritualities.