Music as theology : what music has to say about the Word / Maeve Louise Heaney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heaney, Maeve Louise, 1967-

Series:

Princeton theological monograph series ; 184.

Princeton theological monograph series ; 184

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Religious aspects.

Music.

Theology.

Physical Description:

xiii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Or. : Pickwick Publications, [2012]

Summary:

"The conversation between music and theology, dormant for too long in recent years, is at last gathering pace. And rightly so. There will always be theologians who will regard music as a somewhat peripheral concern, too trivial to trouble the serious scholar, and in any case almost impossible to engage because of its notorious resistance to words and concepts. But an increasing number are discovering again what many of our forbears realized centuries ago, that the kinship between this pervasive feature of human life and the search for a Christian 'intelligence of faith' is intimate and ineradicable. Book jacket.

Contents:

Meaning in music

Towards a hermeneutical understanding of music

An approach to musical semiotics

Towards a theological epistemology of music

Theological aesthetics in contemporary theology

Theology of the body of Christ and contemporary music.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-342) and index.

ISBN:

1610974506

9781610974509

OCLC:

811249408

Publisher Number:

99951532984