Abstract

The necessarily time-laden nature of both human experience and the art form of music opens theological connections between the two, namely, (1) that the Christian expectation of the restoration between God and humanity is enacted through music and (2) that this enactment reveals the cataphatic-apophatic tension at the heart of theological discourse. This method of theological interpretation of music, which emerges from a cross-reading of ontological hermeneutics and Christian theological aesthetics, is applied to two works of popular music: John Coltrane's A Love Supreme (1965) and Liturgy's Aesthethica (2011).

Details

Title
Keeping Time: A Theological Reading of Temporality in Popular Music
Author
Coker, Samuel Meriwether
Publication year
2023
Publisher
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
ISBN
9798379584306
Source type
Dissertation or Thesis
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2819964804
Copyright
Database copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.