Resounding Truth (Engaging Culture)
Resounding Truth (Engaging Culture)

Author: Jeremy S. Begbie

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2007-12-01

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1441200711

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Even fallen humans compose beautiful symphonies, music that touches emotions as nothing else can. Resounding Truth shows Christians how to uncover the Gospel message found in the many melodies that surround us. Theologian and musician Jeremy Begbie believes our divinely-inspired imagination reveals opportunity for sincere, heartfelt praise. With practical examples, lucid explanations, and an accessible bibliography, this book will help music lovers discover how God's diversity shines through sound. Begbie helps readers see the Master of Song and experience the harmony of heavenly hope.

Resonant Witness
Resonant Witness

Author: Jeremy S. Begbie

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2011-01-10

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13: 0802862772

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Resonant Witness gathers together a wide, harmonious chorus of voices from across the musical and theological spectrum to show that music and theology can each learn much from the other and that the majesty and power of both are profoundly amplified when they do. With essays touching on J. S. Bach, Hildegard of Bingen, Martin Luther, Karl Barth, Olivier Messiaen, jazz improvisation, South African freedom songs, and more, this volume encourages musicians and theologians to pursue a more fruitful and sustained engagement with one another. What can theology do for music? Resonant Witness helps answer this question with an essential resource in the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of music and theology. Covering an impressively wide range of musical topics, from cosmos to culture and theology to worship, Jeremy Begbie and Steven Guthrie explore and map new territory with incisive contributions from the very best musicians, theologians, and philosophers. Bennett Zon Durham University This volume represents a burst of cross-disciplinary energy and insight that can be celebrated by musicians and theologians, music-lovers and God-lovers alike. John D. Witvliet (from afterword)

Christian Wisdom
Christian Wisdom

Author: David F. Ford

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-06-07

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1139465066

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What is Christian wisdom for living in the twenty-first century? Where is it to be found? How can it be learnt? In the midst of diverse religions and worldviews and the demands and complexities of our world, David Ford explores a Christian way of uniting love of wisdom with wisdom in love. Core elements are the 'discernment of cries', the love of God for God's sake, interpretation of scripture, and the shaping of desire in faith. Case studies deal with inter-faith wisdom among Jews, Christians and Muslims, universities as centres of wisdom as well as knowledge and know-how and the challenge of learning disabilities. Throughout, there is an attempt to do justice to the premodern, modern and postmodern while grappling with scripture, tradition and the cries of the world today. Ford opens up the rich resources of Christianity in engaging with the issues and urgencies of contemporary life.

Theology, Music and Time
Theology, Music and Time

Author: Jeremy Begbie

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-07-24

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780521785686

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Theology, Music and Time aims to show how music can enrich and advance theology, extending our wisdom about God and God's ways with the world. Instead of asking: what can theology do for music?, it asks: what can music do for theology? Jeremy Begbie argues that music's engagement with time gives the theologian invaluable resources for understanding how it is that God enables us to live 'peaceably' with time as a dimension of the created world. Without assuming any specialist knowledge of music, he explores a wide range of musical phenomena - rhythm, metre, resolution, repetition, improvisation - and through them opens up some of the central themes of the Christian faith - creation, salvation, eschatology, time and eternity, Eucharist, election and ecclesiology. He shows that music can not only refresh theology with new models, but also release it from damaging habits of thought which have hampered its work in the past.

Voicing Creation's Praise
Voicing Creation's Praise

Author: Jeremy Begbie

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9780567291882

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An introduction to the theology of art and the art of theology.

Visual Faith
Visual Faith

Author: William A. Dyrness

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2001-11

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 0801022975

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An intriguing, substantive look into the relationship between the church and the world of art.

Personal Jesus
Personal Jesus

Author: Clive Marsh

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2013-01-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780801039096

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Pop music is now an ever-present force shaping citizens in the West. Even at funerals, pop music is often requested over hymns. But how does popular music work? And what roles does it play for listeners who engage it? This new addition to the critically acclaimed Engaging Culture series explores the theological significance of the ways pop music is listened to and used today. The authors show that popular music is used by religious and nonreligious people alike to make meaning, enabling listeners to explore human concerns about embodiment, create communities, and tap into transcendence. They assess what is happening to Christian faith and theology as a result. The book incorporates case studies featuring noted music artists of our day--including David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Sigur Rós, Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, and Lady Gaga--and includes practical implications for the church, the academy, and daily musical listening. It also includes a foreword by Tom Beaudoin, author of Virtual Faith.

Echoes of Eden
Echoes of Eden

Author: Jerram Barrs

Publisher: Crossway

Published: 2013-05-31

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1433536005

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From comic books to summer blockbusters, all people enjoy art in some form or another. However, few of us can effectively explain why certain books, movies, and songs resonate so profoundly within us. In Echoes of Eden, Jerram Barrs helps us identify the significance of artistic expression as it reflects the extraordinary creativity and unmatched beauty of the Creator God. Additionally, Barrs provides the key elements for evaluating and defining great art: (1) The glory of the original creation; (2) The tragedy of the curse of sin; (3) The hope of final redemption and renewal. These three qualifiers are then put to the test as Barrs investigates five of the world's most influential authors who serve as ideal case studies in the exploration of the foundations and significance of great art.

Redeeming Transcendence in the Arts
Redeeming Transcendence in the Arts

Author: Jeremy Begbie

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2018-02-14

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1467449393

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How can the arts witness to the transcendence of the Christian God? Many people believe that there is something transcendent about the arts, that they can awaken a profound sense of awe, wonder, and mystery, of something “beyond” this world—even for those who may have no use for conventional forms of Christianity. In this book Jeremy Begbie—a leading voice on theology and the arts—employs a biblical, Trinitarian imagination to show how Christian involvement in the arts can be shaped by the distinctive vision of God’s transcendence opened up in and through Jesus Christ.

No Sympathy for the Devil
No Sympathy for the Devil

Author: David Ware Stowe

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0807834580

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In this cultural history of evangelical Christianity and popular music, David Stowe demonstrates how mainstream rock of the 1960s and 1970s has influenced conservative evangelical Christianity through the development of Christian pop music. For an earlier