Begbie, Jeremy - Theology, Music, and Modernity

This authoritative collection addresses the question: how can the study of music contribute to a theological reading of modernity? It has grown out of the conviction that music has often been ignored in narrations of modernity's theological struggles.

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CONTENTS

List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Introduction
Part One: Revolutionary Freedom
1: Revolutionary Freedom: An Image of Musical Autonomy in Beethoven
Daniel K. L. Chua
2: Kant, Aesthetic Judgment, and Beethoven
John Hare
3: Freedom in Paul and Modernity
Chris Tilling
4: Soundworld Spatiality and the Unheroic Self-Giving of Jesus Christ
Imogen Adkins
Part II. From Church to Concert Hall
5: From the Church to the Concert Hall: J. S. Bach, Mendelssohn, and the Imaginary Chorale
R. Larry Todd
6: Music in the Margin of Indifference: J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion
Bettina Varwig
7: Individual and Communal Freedom and the Performance History of the St Matthew Passion by Bach and Mendelssohn
Markus Rathey
8: Music, Freedom, and the Decisive Particular
Jeremy Begbie
Part III. Singing Justice
9: Richard Allen (1760-1831) and the Sacred Music of Black Americans, 1740-1850
Patrick McCreless
10: Hymns, Songs, and the Pursuit of Freedom
Michael O'Connor
11: Between Free Grace and Liberty: Richard Allen's Evocations of Eschatological and Immediate Freedom
Charrise Barron
12: The Theology of Richard Allen's Musical Worship
Awet Andemicael
Part IV. Music, Freedom, and Language
13: Music Language Dwelling
Julian Johnson
14: Herder's Alternative Path to Musical Transcendence
Stephen Rumph
15: The Witness of Praise: The Hope of Dwelling
Norman Wirzba
16: The Word Refreshed: Music and God-talk
Jeremy Begbie