Description
Carol Harrison explores, via the writings of Augustine, the importance of music to religious experience and philosophical thought and how our thinking about music has changed since late antiquity.
About the Author
Carol Harrison is Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford University, UK. She is the author of The Art of Listening in the Early Church (2013), Rethinking the Development of Augustine's Early Theology: An Argument for Continuity (2006), Augustine: Christian Truth and Fractured Humanity (2000), and Revelation and Beauty in the Thought of Saint Augustine (1992). She is the Editor of the Routledge Early Church Fathers book series and is past President of the International Association of Patristic Studies.
Reviews
The book gives a helpful map of theistic and nontheistic spiritualities, but due, in part, to its broad and comprehensive nature, specialists in the different areas covered will find issues to challenge and argue about. * Horizons: The Journal of the College Theology Society *
This is a critically important book ... [It] becomes very clear that the significance of Carol Harrison's study extends far beyond the fourth century, and concerns every major locus of Christian theology. * Modern Theology *
Harrison's book will be an asset for any academic library that serves students of music history, philosophy, and theology. It is a valuable assemblage of primary materials, a rich source of often unusual secondary sources, and an interesting presentation of a point of view that merits further consideration. * Catholic Library World *
Harrison's study captures the dialectical texture of Augustine's thinking about music, as she strings along puzzles, resolutions and new puzzles with fugal complexity ... by helping us read Augustine's thinking on music, with all its twists and turns, Harrison invites us into a rich conversation that gets at questions basic to human experience. * Theology *
Book Information
ISBN 9781501326264
Author Professor Carol Harrison
Format Paperback
Page Count 184
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic USA
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Weight(grams) 260g