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Music, modernity, and God : essays in listening / Jeremy Begbie

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Begbie, Jeremy
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: Listening to Music -- 2.Shifting Sensibilities: Calvin and Music -- 3.Disquieting Conversations: Bach, Modernity, and God -- 4.The Nature of Music: Rameau, Rousseau, and `Natural Theology' -- 5.Musical Apotheosis: Early German Romanticism -- 6.Room of One's Own? Music, Space, and Freedom -- 7.Music and God-Talk (1): Mapping the Field -- 8.Music and God-Talk (2): Interaction in Action.
Summary
Jeremy Begbie explores how the practices of music and the discourses it has generated bear witness to some of the pivotal theological currents and counter-currents shaping modernity. Begbie argues that music is capable of yielding highly effective ways of addressing some of the more intractable theological problems and dilemmas of modernity.
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9780191747007 (ebook)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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