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Music and the Generosity of God
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2018 Springer International Publishing
Auflage: 1. Auflage
XIII, 140 Seiten; XIII, 140 p. 4 illus.; 21 cm x 14.8 cm
Sprache: English
ISBN: 978-3-319-88787-6
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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.
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.
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.