Music and the Generosity of God

What if sounds everywhere lavish divine generosity? Merging insights from Jean-Luc Marion with musical ingenuity from Pierre Boulez and John Cage's 4'33", Gerald C. Liu blends the phenomenological, theological, and musical to formulate a hypothesis that in all places, soundscapes instantiate divine giving without boundary. He aims to widen apprehension of holiness in the world, and privileges the ubiquity of sound as a limitless and easily accessible portal for discovering the inexhaustible magnitude of divine giving.      

List of contents

1. Introduction.- 2. A Silent Prayer.- 3. Theological Stocktaking with Pierre Boulez.- 4. The Epistle of 4'33".- 5. The Ubiquity of Music and Sacramental Life.- 6. The Spook of Modern Technology and the Generosity of Music.- 7. Conclusion. 

About the author

Gerald C. Liu is Assistant Professor of Worship and Preaching at Princeton Theological Seminary, USA.

Summary

What if sounds everywhere lavish divine generosity? Merging insights from Jean-Luc Marion with musical ingenuity from Pierre Boulez and John Cage’s 4’33”, Gerald C. Liu blends the phenomenological, theological, and musical to formulate a hypothesis that in all places, soundscapes instantiate divine giving without boundary. He aims to widen apprehension of holiness in the world, and privileges the ubiquity of sound as a limitless and easily accessible portal for discovering the inexhaustible magnitude of divine giving.      

Product details

• Authors: Gerald C. Liu
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.11.2017
• EAN: 9783319694924
• ISBN: 978-3-31-969492-4
• No. of pages: 140
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 217 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 300 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 140 p. 4 illus.
• Series: Radical Theologies and Philosophies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; C, Phenomenology, Theology, Christian theology, Philosophy: aesthetics, Theory of music & musicology, Religion and Philosophy, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Philosophy of Music, Music—Philosophy and aesthetics