The Music Of Creation

Klappentext Here Peacocke and Pederson compose a rhapsody on divine creativity in three movements. Through an extended analogy, they reveal how Christian understandings of creation can be brightly lit by scientific insights and approached analogously through examining musical creativity. They also include relevant selections on an accompanying CD-ROM. Composition, fugal arrangement, rhythm and tempo, jazz improvization all shed light on creation. Creation from nothing, continual creation, incarnate creativity, communal or ecclesial creativity, open-ended future creativity--new ways of thinking about the Christian teaching are illumined and exemplified in musical creativity from Bach to Monk: Prelude First Movement: Creation with Time Second Movement: Creation in Time Bridge Passage: Creation Fulfilled Third Movement: Working at Creation Coda: Ongoing Creation Zusammenfassung Aims to reveal how Christian understanding of creation can be brightly lit by contemporary scientific insights, and approached analogously by examining musical creativity. This book includes selections on an accompanying CD. It includes compositions, fugal arrangements, rhythms and tempos, and jazz improvisations.

Product details

• Authors: Arthur Peacocke, Arthur R. Peacocke, Arthur/ Pederson Peacocke, Ann Pedersen, Ann Pederson
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Pub
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2005
• EAN: 9780800637569
• ISBN: 978-0-8006-3756-9
• No. of pages: 107
• Dimensions: 203 mm x 197 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Theology & the Sciences S.; Theology & the Sciences; Theology & the Sciences S.
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Religious writings, prayers, songbooks, religious meditations