
God's Mind in That Music
Don E. Saliers
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Description
As part of the growing literature on theology and the arts, God's Mind in that Music explores the substantial theological insight expressed in the music of jazz legend John Coltrane. Focusing on eight of Coltrane's pieces, themes under consideration include lament ("Alabama"), improvisation ("My Favorite Things" and "Ascension"), grace ("A Love Supreme"), and the Trinity ("The Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost"). By attending to the traditions of theology and of jazz criticism, and through a series of interviews with musicians, theologians, and jazz writers, Jamie Howison draws the worlds of theology and jazz into an active and vibrant conversation with each other. Built around a focused listening to John Coltrane's music as heard against the background of his life and social context, and interacting with the work of a range of writers including James Baldwin, Dorothee Soelle, Jeremy Begbie, and James Cone, God's Mind in that Music will be of interest not only to those interested in the intersection of music and theology, but also to Coltrane fans, students of jazz studies, and anyone who believes that music matters.
Product Details
Publisher | Cascade Books |
Publish Date | October 17, 2012 |
Pages | 250 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9781620321560 |
Dimensions | 8.9 X 6.0 X 0.6 inches | 0.7 pounds |
About the Author
Jamie Howison is a priest of the Anglican Church of Canada and the founding pastoral leader of saint benedict's table in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was ordained in the Diocese of Rupert's Land in 1987, and has remained in his home diocese, ministering in parish contexts--including serving as pastor for the first fully amalgamated Anglican/Lutheran congregation in Canada--as well as in campus and institutional chaplaincy. A member of the Primate's Theological Commission of the Anglican Church of Canada from 2004 to 2010, he has also been a short-term resident scholar at the Collegeville Institute in 2009, 2011, 2014, and 2016, and was named a Burke Library Scholar-in-Residence at New York's Union Theological Seminary for the winter of 2011. Jamie is the author of God's Mind in that Music: Theological Explorations through the Music of John Coltrane (Cascade, 2012) and A Kind of Solitude (Resource, 2021), and the co-author with Steve Bell of I Will Not Be Shaken: a songwriter's journey through the Psalms (Signpost, 2015).
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