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Doing Justice to Life in All Its Dimensions: Nurturing Humanism as Aesthetic Existence in the Church as a Sphere of Freedom

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In this essay the author examines what Dietrich Bonhoeffer meant when he wrote from prison to his friend Eberhard Bethge and said that he wanted to retrieve “aesthetic existence” in the life of the church as a sphere of freedom. This is related to what he also told Bethge, namely, that it is “only as we hold fast to Christ as cantus firmus ...
John W. de Gruchy
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The Reverb of Divine Revelation: Theological Poetics in John of the Cross

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the theological poetics of John of the Cross, investigating both the conditions under which contemplative experience gives rise to speech and the theological status of that speech within John's account of divine revelation.
Michael C. Costas
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The Church in a Pluralistic World: The Public Vision of Ressourcement

Religions, 2019
The dual concern of this article is to present the vision of the church articulated by the renowned generation of Catholic ressourcement thinkers in the mid-twentieth century, and to demonstrate its continued fecundity in the pluralist, multi-cultural ...
Gabriel Flynn
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The Garden and the Gardener: Film, Creativity, and the Gift of Creation

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In his essay ‘From God the Artist to Man the Creator’, Jean‐Louis Chrétien considers the possibility that human creativity can participate in divine creativity. As created, creative beings, Chrétien suggests that our art and other creative enterprise may become a site for participation in God's act of creation. This article takes its lead from
James Lorenz
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Creativity and Embodied Knowledge in Nicholas of Cusa's De mente (1450)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article aims to nuance the widespread view that embodied experience plays a secondary role in the acquisition of human knowledge in Nicholas of Cusa's thought. With a focus on De mente (1450), I contend that the body is not limited to being a necessary stimulus to provoke the mind's activity, but rather that finite, material experience ...
Massiel Román Molero
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Civilizing the Nation: Travel, Civility and Bourgeois Nationalism in Israel

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reads The Lapid Guide to Europe, a bestselling Hebrew‐language travel guide published from the 1970s to the 1990s, as a form of bourgeois nationalism enacted through everyday practices of behaviour. Written by journalist and Holocaust survivor Tommy Lapid, the guide operated as civic pedagogy, instructing Israeli travellers in ...
Daniel Mahla
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The Use of the Harmonium in Opera

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Musica
The article explores the role of harmonium in opera during the transformative 19th and early 20th centuries, amidst significant reforms in orchestration.
Ádám Sándor FAZAKAS
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Suspended God: Music and a Theology of Doubt

, 2022
Heaney traces the hidden history of music's presence in Christian thought, including its often unrecognized influence on key figures such as von Balthasar, Barth and Bonhoeffer. She uses Lonergan's theological framework to explore musical composition as a theological act, showing why, when and how music is a useful symbolic form.
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Evidentiary Interpretation, Discursive Injustice, and Rap on Trial

Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The submission of rap lyrics as inculpatory evidence (Rap on Trial) is an active prosecution tactic deployed in United States criminal trials. In this paper, I argue that interpretive ambiguity in rap lyrics is exploited in Rap on Trial cases, constituting a novel form of discursive injustice: extractive discursive injustice.
K. M. Crandall
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Realms: A Phenomenological, Socio-Cultural and Theological-Religious Studies exploration of Musical Space [PDF]

, 2009
This thesis sets out to explore the ways people use and interpret experience of music, the divine and interaction with other people within discrete musical spaces. This exploration takes place in two sites: a Pentecostal church in suburban Perth, Western
Jennings, Mark
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