Jeremy Begbie, The Trinity, and Music
“There is a very big difference in the way we see the world and the way we hear the world. When we see the world we can’t have two objects in space at the same time and see them as different…in the way we hear that is not the case…notes in music fills the whole of what we hear. If we add another note then both notes fill the same space but hear them as two notes. They can be inside each other but stay distinct.
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Additional Resources:
- Theology, Music and Time (Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine)
- Music, Modernity, and God: Essays in Listening
- Resonant Witness: Conversations between Music and Theology (Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Liturgical Studies)