Abstract
AbstractThis chapter develops the preceding discussion of Cook in a theological context. How might an engagement with music, and discourse about music, contribute to the formation of theological language, and to a more faithful and fruitful ‘indwelling’ of theological language already in use, and one that is sensitive to the challenges of modernity? It is argued that theology is committed to a certain understanding of the ‘primacy’ of language by virtue of God’s own self-presentation in Jesus Christ. At the same time, this need not diminish the distinctive attributes and capacities of music as they interact with language. Music—in, with, and through theological language—can enable a fuller participation in the realities which that language mediates and in which it is caught up. This is expanded with particular attention to doctrine, and the chapter concludes with some reflections on the wider issues at stake concerning creation and ontology.
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