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This essay offers a fresh attempt to bring the neo-Calvinist tradition into dialogue with the arts. The main purpose of this contribution is to apply Abraham Kuyper’s general comments on the arts to the neglected sphere of music. It will be shown that Kuyper’s holistic approach, with his emphasis on common grace, and on art as reflecting the created order while also pointing beyond it, shows distinct affinities with Martin Luther’s view on music. In the past, Christianity has not particularly distinguished itself in its scholarly discourse about art. This study suggests that Kuyper’s neo-Calvinist agenda offers much food for thought for today’s reflections on music and listening.
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Kuyper, Lectures on Calvinism (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1931), 144.
See for instance, Daniel A. Siedell, God in the Gallery: A Christian Embrace of Modern Art (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2008), and Paul C. Finney, Seeing Beyond the Word: Visual arts and the Calvinist tradition (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999).
Kuyper, Lectures on Calvinism, 153. The original quote is from Calvin’s commentary on Exodus 31:2, where he notes that “all the arts emanate from Him, and therefore ought to be accounted divine inventions.” Calvin, Commentaries on the Four last books of Moses, Vol. 3, trans. Charles W. Bingham (Edinburgh: Calvin Translation Society, 1847), 291.
Kuyper, Het calvinisme en de kunst, 14; cf. Lectures on Calvinism, 156.
Hans Heinrich Wolf, “Die Bedeutung der Musik bei Calvin,” Monatsschrift für Gottesdienst und kirchliche Kunst 41 (1936): 198–204.
Begbie, Music, Modernity, and God, 32. See also his observations in Begbie, ‘Created Beauty: The Witness of J.S. Bach,’ in Resonant Witness: Conversations between Music and Theology, eds. Jeremy S. Begbie and Steven R. Guthrie (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011), 83–108.
See John Barber, ‘The Music God likes and the Calvinist Tradition,’ in The Kuyper Center Review, vol. 3: Calvinism and Culture, ed. Gordon Graham (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013), 130–148.
See Richard J. Platinga, ‘The Integration of Music and Theology in the Vocal Compositions of J.S. Bach,’ in Resonant Witness: Conversations between Music and Theology, eds. Jeremy S. Begbie and Steven R. Guthrie (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011), 215–239; see also John Eliot Gardiner, Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach (London: Penguin, 2013), 125–156.
Begbie, ‘Created Beauty: The Witness of J.S. Bach,’ in Resonant Witness: Conversations between Music and Theology, eds. Jeremy S. Begbie and Steven R. Guthrie (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011), 104.
Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003), 283.
See Edward Campbell, Boulez, Music and Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 97–137.
See Edward Campbell, Boulez, Music and Philosophy, 97–111.
See David W. Bernstein, “Cage and high modernism,” in The Cambridge Companion to John Cage, ed. David Nicholls (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 201–203.
Konrad Boehmer, “Chance as Ideology,” in John Cage, ed. Julia Robinson (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011), 26.
See Vern S. Poythress, Chance and the Sovereignty of God: A God-centered Approach to Probability and Random Events (Wheaton: Crossway, 2014).
See James D. Bratt, Abraham Kuyper: Modern Calvinist, Christian Democrat (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013), 23, 33–34, 40.
Hoffmann, “Beethovens Instrumentalmusik,” Zeitung für die Elegante Welt, 245 (December 9, 1813), Sp. 1953.
Bratt, Abraham Kuyper, 34. See also Heslam, Creating a Christian Worldview, 206–209.
See Robert Sholl, “The Shock of the Positive: Olivier Messiaen, St. Francis, and Redemption through Modernity,” in Resonant Witness: Conversations between Music and Theology, eds. Jeremy S. Begbie and Steven R. Guthrie (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011), 162–189.
See Bruhn, Messiaen’s Interpretations of Holiness and Trinity, 115–117.
See Bruhn, Messiaen’s Interpretations of Holiness and Trinity, 105–114.
See Sander van Maas, Reinvention of Religious Music: Olivier Messiaen’s Breakthrough toward the Beyond (New York: Fordham University Press, 2009), 32.
Messiaen, in Sander van Maas, Reinvention of Religious Music, 26.
Messiaen, in Sander van Maas, Reinvention of Religious Music, 2. One ought to add at this point that Messiaen’s notion of ‘breakthrough’ includes a reciprocal theology of praise, namely on part of the human being (in the composition/performance of music) and the divine (in revelation through music). Our attention has been more on the former than the latter.
Messiaen, in Sander van Maas, Reinvention of Religious Music, 16.
See Sander van Maas, “Messiaen’s Saintly Naïveté,” in Messiaen the Theologian, ed. Andrew Shanton, 41–62 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010), 41–42.
Anderson, “The (In)visibility of Theology in Contemporary Art Criticism,” in Christian Scholarship in the Twenty-First Century: Prospects and Perils, eds. Thomas M. Crisp, Steve L. Porter, and Gregg A. Ten Elshof, 53–79 (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014), 79.
See Jeremy S. Begbie, “Faithful Feelings: Music and Emotion in Worship,” in Resonant Witness: Conversations between Music and Theology, eds. Jeremy S. Begbie and Steven R. Guthrie (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011), 323–354.
Macleod, “Scottish Calvinism: A Dark, Repressive Force?”, Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology 19:2 (2001), 225.
I have taken this notion from van Maas, Reinvention of Religious Music, 160–162.
Adorno, Einleitung in die Musiksoziologie (Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1975).
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This essay offers a fresh attempt to bring the neo-Calvinist tradition into dialogue with the arts. The main purpose of this contribution is to apply Abraham Kuyper’s general comments on the arts to the neglected sphere of music. It will be shown that Kuyper’s holistic approach, with his emphasis on common grace, and on art as reflecting the created order while also pointing beyond it, shows distinct affinities with Martin Luther’s view on music. In the past, Christianity has not particularly distinguished itself in its scholarly discourse about art. This study suggests that Kuyper’s neo-Calvinist agenda offers much food for thought for today’s reflections on music and listening.
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| Aufrufe von Kurzbeschreibungen | 396 | 26 | 3 |
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