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.      

Info autore

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

Riassunto

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.      

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Gerald C. Liu
• Editore: Springer, Berlin
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 27.11.2017
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Cristianesimo
• EAN: 9783319694924
• ISBN: 978-3-31-969492-4
• Numero di pagine: 140
• Illustrazioni: XIII, 140 p. 4 illus.
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 15.5 x 21.7 x 1.5 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 300 g
• Serie: Radical Theologies and Philosophies
• Categorie: C, Phenomenology, Theology, Christian theology, Philosophy: aesthetics, Theory of music & musicology, Religion and Philosophy, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Philosophy of Music, Music—Philosophy and aesthetics