Description:
This book reconceives theology as a musical endeavour in critical tension with language, space and silence.
Review Quotes:
Three distinguished philosophical critics of religion orchestrate their voices in exquisite descriptions that restitute the uncanny capacity of music to express the inner melody and rhythm of life and thought and feeling. Learned reconstruction of the unique role of music in the history of culture enables the logos of theos to sound its intimate, incarnate vibration between sensation and contemplation, echoing remote Orphic and Pythagorean origins. Rich and unprecedented. Sublime and moving as only music can be. Thought-provoking by making thought itself dissolve into musical keys at its core that have become inaudible since the silencing of the sacred in a religiously tone-deaf society. A powerfully innovative, positive antiphonal response to theologies of the death of God. The book succeeds resonantly in making theology again sound its openness to "our ineffable whole."
- William Franke, Professor of Comparative Literature, Vanderbilt University, France