Carmen Dei: Music and Creation in Three Theologians
The essay traces the idea that God creates the world with the harmony, order, and beauty of a song or poem (carmen Dei), through the works of St Augustine, St Bonaventure, and John Polkinghorne. Some common themes emerge: The idea of musical temporalization, the harmonious unity of the world, a logi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
2006
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Theology today
Year: 2006, Volume: 62, Issue: 4, Pages: 484-500 |
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| Summary: | The essay traces the idea that God creates the world with the harmony, order, and beauty of a song or poem (carmen Dei), through the works of St Augustine, St Bonaventure, and John Polkinghorne. Some common themes emerge: The idea of musical temporalization, the harmonious unity of the world, a logic of wholes and parts, the priority of a theological aesthetics, the realization of temporal harmonies in daily life, and the notion that the composition of the world is produced by a trinitarian Creator and that its last note will be played in an eschatologically open future. |
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| ISSN: | 2044-2556 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology today
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/004057360606200405 |