1st Edition
Theological Anthropology in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito Sin, Grace, and Conversion
By Steffen Lösel
Copyright 2023
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book asks what theological messages theologically educated Catholics in late-eighteenth-century Prague might have perceived in Mozart’s late opera seria La clemenza di Tito. The book’s thesis is two-fold: first, that Catholics might have heard the opera’s advocacy of enlightened absolutism as a celebration of a distinctly Catholic understanding of political governance; and second, that they... Read more
Introduction
1 Contexts
2 Political Theology
3 Tito: Grace Freely Given
4 Sesto: Concupiscence and Conversion
5 Vitellia: Lust for Power
Epilogue
Bibliography
Biography
Steffen Lösel is Associate Professor in the Practice of Systematic Theology at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, USA.
