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God’s Song and Music’s Meanings: Theology, Liturgy, and Musicology in Dialogue book cover

1st Edition

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

Edited By James Hawkey, Ben Quash, Vernon White Copyright 2020
206 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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. 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... Read more

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

Biography

James Hawkey is Canon Theologian of Westminster Abbey, and a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, UK.

Ben Quash is Professor of Christianity and the Arts and Director of the Centre for Arts and the Sacred at King’s College London, UK.

Vernon White is Visiting Professor in Theology at King’s College London, UK. Until recently he was also Sub-Dean and Canon Theologian at Westminster Abbey.

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