The Sacred in Music

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Westminster John Knox Press, 1999 M04 15 - 255 páginas

Religion and music are complementary resources for interpreting our lives. Music serves the sacred in ways that can be specified and articulated, yet the connection between them has been sorely neglected in the scholarly study of religion. In The Sacred in Music, Albert Blackwell brings the two subjects together in a celebration of the rich Western musical tradition, both classical and Christian.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
7
SACRAMENTAL TRADITIONS
25
The Incarnational Tradition
40
TRANSCENDING CONTINGENCY
49
MANIFESTING TRANSCENDENCE
91
ENDURING TIME
125
SUSTAINING HARMONY
159
SURPASSING LANGUAGE
199
CODETTA
233
INDEX OF BIBLICAL PASSAGES
247
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Albert L. Blackwell is the Reuben B. Pitts Professor Emeritus of Religion at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. He is the founder of The Piedmont Resource Center, and received Furman's Meritorious Teaching Award in 1977. He also serves as director of the choir at St. James Episcopal Church in Greenville.

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