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In a culture that so often seems to shrink and flatten our vision, reducing the world to mere atoms and us to mere things, the arts can break our imaginations open. In conversation with multiple art forms, a world-renowned theologian helps us see this world and ourselves as infinitely richer than we could ever imagine: as created and redeemed by the inexhaustible love of God.

Created beauty : the witness of J.S. Bach -- Beauty, sentimentality, and the arts -- Faithful feelings : music and emotion in worship -- Openness and specificity : a conversation with David Brown on theology and classical music -- Confidence and anxiety in Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius -- The Holy Spirit at work in the arts : learning from George Herbert -- Natural theology and music -- Room of one's own? music, space, and freedom -- The future of theology amid the arts : some Reformed reflections

Jeremy Begbie explores how the practices of music and the discourses it has generated bear witness to some of the pivotal theological currents and counter-currents shaping modernity. Begbie argues that music is capable of yielding highly effective ways of addressing some of the more intractable theological problems and dilemmas of modernity

The Meanings of Worship -- The Meanings of Art -- The Theological Meanings of Art in Worship -- Worship and the Musical Arts -- Worship and the Visual and Architectural Arts -- Worship and the Poetic Arts -- Worship and the Narrative Arts -- Worship and the Theatre Arts -- Worship and the Kinetic Arts -- Mother Tongues and Adjectival Tongues -- The Worship Arts and the Mission of the Church.

1. Time, eternity and the arts / Richard Bauckham -- 2. Patterns of hope and images of eternity : listening to Shakespeare, Blake and T.S. Eliot / Paul S. Fiddes -- 3. Space and time : eschatological dimensions of Christian architecture / A.N. Williams -- 4. Echoes of hope in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo and Beethoven's Fidelio / Daniel K.L. Chua -- 5. Brave new world? Faith, hope and the political imagination / Kristen Deede Johnson -- 6. The unique psychology of hope / Patricia Bruininks -- 7. The challenge of a 'hopeless' God : negotiating José Sanramago's novel The Gospel according to Jesus Christ / Bruce W. Longenecker -- 8. Hoping against hope : Morrissey and the light that never goes out / Gavin Hopps -- 9. Unexpected endings : eucatastrophic consolations in literature and theology / Trevor Hart.

Intro -- Title Page -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Figures -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Meaning in Music -- Chapter 2: Towards a Hermeneutical Understanding of Music -- Chapter 3: An Approach to Musical Semiotics -- Chapter 4: Towards a Theological Epistemology of Music -- Chapter 5: Theological Aesthetics in Contemporary Theology -- Chapter 6: Theology of the Body of Christ and Contemporary Music -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography.

"Creation and the new creation are inextricably bound, for the God who created the world is the same God who promises a new heaven and a new earth. Bringing together theologians, biblical scholars, and artists, this volume based on the DITA10 conference at Duke Divinity School explores how the relation between creation and the new creation is informed by and reflected in the arts"--

"Creation and the new creation are inextricably bound, for the God who created the world is the same God who promises a new heaven and a new earth. Bringing together theologians, biblical scholars, and artists, this volume based on the DITA10 conference at Duke Divinity School explores how the relation between creation and the new creation is informed by and reflected in the arts"--

This authoritative collection addresses the question: how can the study of music contribute to a theological reading of modernity? It has grown out of the conviction that music has often been ignored in narrations of modernity's theological struggles.