Theology, Music, and Modernity

Bradley K. Broadhead, Reading Religion The different specializations of contributors in theology, musicology, and/or music theory provide well balanced look at each topic ... This book goes beyond many other edited volumes by having contributors interact (to differing degrees) with one another.

Anthony J. Godzieba, Villanova University, BACH Journal This volume is a fine contribution to an ongoing discussion about the crucialmeanings of ourmodern past that continue to shape the way we encounter its musical experiences in the present.

Jeremy Begbie is Thomas A. Langford Distinguished Professor of Theology at Duke University. Daniel K. L. Chua is Mr and Mrs Hung Hing-Ying Professor in the Arts and Professor of Music at the University of Hong Kong. Markus Rathey is Robert S. Tangeman Professor in the Practice of Music History at Yale University.

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