Theology, Music, and Modernity

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

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Theology, Music, and Modernity 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. Featuring contributions from an international team of distinguished theologians, musicologists, and music theorists, the volume shows how music--and discourse about music--has remarkable powers to bring to light the theological currents that have shaped modern culture. It focuses on the concept of freedom, concentrating on the years 1740-1850, a period when freedom--especially religious and political freedom-became a burning matter of concern in virtually every stratum of Western society. The collection is divided into four sections, each section focusing on a key phenomenon of this period--the rise of the concept of 'revolutionary' freedom; the move of music from church to concert hall; the cry for eschatological justice in the work of black hymn-writer and church leader Richard Allen; and the often fierce tensions between music and language. There is a particular concern to draw on a distinctively 'Scriptural imagination' (especially the theme of New Creation) in order to elicit the key issues at stake, and to suggest constructive ways forward for a contemporary Christian theological engagement with the legacies of modernity today.

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