Music and Monotheism by Gareth F Wilson

Music and Monotheism by Gareth F Wilson

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Music and Monotheism by Gareth F Wilson

What connects the phenomenon of music as an art with the belief in one indivisible God? What has music, a non-linguistic medium, to say about the personal, loving, communicative God of Scripture and the Prophets, or the omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, transcendent God of the Philosophers and can it bring these 'concepts of God' together? To answer these questions, this book takes divine Creation as its starting point, that the God of monotheism must be the Creator of all that is. It thus argues that anything which instantiates and facilitates communication within the created realm has been enabled to do so by a God who communicates with His Creation, and who wishes that His Creation be communicative. Indeed, it will argue that the communication allowed by music, and aesthetic experience in general, is the very raison d' tre of Abrahamic monotheism and might thus allow an opportunity for dialogue between monotheistic faiths.
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ISBN 13 9781009158923
ISBN 10 1009158929
Title Music and Monotheism
Author Gareth F Wilson
Series Elements In Religion And Monotheism
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 2025-01-09
Number of pages 76
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