God and Grace of Body

Sacrament in Ordinary
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-959996-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 137 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 582 g

Restores the body - beautiful and sexy - to its place in Christian experience
Deploys an enormous range of cultural reference - from African priest-poets to Poulenc and Messiaen to Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain
Like Brown's previous volumes, this book widens horizons and challenge much current theological thinking

David Brown explores the ways in which the symbolic associations of the body and what we do with it have helped shape religious experience and continue to do so. A Church narrowly focused on Christ's body wracked in pain needs to be reminded that the body as beautiful and sexual has also played a crucial role not only in other religions but also in the history of Christianity itself. Dance was one way in which the connection was expressed. The irony is not that such a connection has gone but that it now exists almost wholly outside the Church. Much the same could be said about music more generally, and Brown writes excitingly about the spiritual potential of not just classical music but also pop, jazz, musicals, and opera. Like Brown's much-praised earlier volumes, God and Enchantment of Place, Tradition and Imagination, and Discipleship and Imagination, the present book will enlarge horizons and challenge the narrowness of much theological thinking.

Zielgruppe

Those interested in theology and culture, in music and religion; sociologists, cultural historians.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christliche Kunst und Kultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliche Spiritualität, Christliche Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Christliche Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
I. Finding God in Bodies
1: Beautiful and Sexy
2: The Dancer's Leap
3: Food and Drink
4: Ugly and Wasted
II. Ethereal and Material
5: Classical Music
6: Pop Music
7: Blues, Musicals, and Opera
III. The Eucharistic Body
8: Healing and Presence
9: The Liturgical Imperative

Über Autor(innen)

David Brown, Professor of Theology, Aesthetics and Culture and Wardlaw Professor, University of St Andrews