Resounding Truth (Engaging Culture)

Resounding Truth (Engaging Culture)
Author: Jeremy S. Begbie
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2007-12-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 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.

Theology, Music and Time

Theology, Music and Time
Author: Jeremy Begbie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2000-07-24
Genre: Music
ISBN: 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.

Visual Faith

Visual Faith
Author: William A. Dyrness
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2001-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0801022975
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An intriguing, substantive look into the relationship between the church and the world of art.

Christian Wisdom

Christian Wisdom
Author: David F. Ford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2007-06-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 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.

A Matrix of Meanings

A Matrix of Meanings
Author: Craig Detweiler
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2003-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 080102417X
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A candid, often humorous look at how to find truth in music, movies, television, and other aspects of pop culture. Includes photos, artwork, and sidebars.

Resonant Witness

Resonant Witness
Author: Jeremy S. Begbie
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 506
Release: 2011-01-10
Genre: Music
ISBN: 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)

In Praise of Wisdom

In Praise of Wisdom
Author: Kim Paffenroth
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780826416032
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Examines the ways that our rich literary tradition in the West deals with the questions of reason and faith.

Personal Jesus

Personal Jesus
Author: Clive Marsh
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-01-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 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.

Heavenly Merchandize

Heavenly Merchandize
Author: Mark Valeri
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2014-01-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0691162174
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Focusing on the economic culture of colonial New England, Heavenly Merchandize views commerce through the eyes of four generations of Boston merchants, drawing upon their personal letters, diaries, business records, and sermon notes to reveal how merchants built a modern form of exchange out of profound transitions in the puritan understanding of discipline, providence, and the meaning of New England. --From publisher's description.

Community Music Today

Community Music Today
Author: Kari K. Veblen
Publisher: R&L Education
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2013-01-16
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1607093219
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Community Music Today highlights community music workers who constantly improvise and reinvent to lead through music and other expressive media. It answers the perennial question “What is community music?” through a broad, international palette of contextual shades, hues, tones, and colors. With over fifty musician/educators participating, the book explores community music in global contexts, interconnections, and marginalized communities, as well as artistry and social justice in performing ensembles. This book is both a response to and a testimony of what music is and can do, music’s place in people’s lives, and the many ways it unites and marks communities. As documented in case studies, community music workers may be musicians, teachers, researchers, and activists, responding to the particular situations in which they find themselves. Their voices are the threads of the multifaceted tapestry of musical practices at play in formal, informal, nonformal, incidental, and accidental happenings of community music.