Judith A. Merkle

Discipleship, Secularity, and the Modern Self (eBook, ePUB)

Dancing to Silent Music

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Judith A. Merkle examines the situation of Christian spirituality today, in a secular age, through the images of dance, silence, and music. Drawing on the work of Charles Taylor as well as core aspects of the tradition of Christian theology on discipleship, Merkle asks how these new conditions affect the practice of Christianity as modern discipleship.

The author calls God the music maker. She argues that response to the reality of God can be captured through the image of dance. Merkle reminds us that people in secular society connect to God in diverse ways, not in the least through the call of creation and the call of conscience. She explores discipleship as a lens through which we can understand how a community of faith, service, prayer, worship, and sacramentality can be viewed and integrated in daily life. She emphasizes how the interconnection between prayer, Eucharist, and a believing community is inseparable from the dance of discipleship as it can be lived in secular society. The image of dancing to silent music is a powerful symbol of Christian religious experience in modern times.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780567693433
• Artikelnr.: 59518312

Autorenporträt

Judith A. Merkle is Professor at the Faculty of Religious Studies at Niagara University, New York, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations and Documents Cited Introduction Part I Foundations
1. Silent Music and the Dance: A New Moment in Christian Spirituality 2.
The Human Partner: the Steps of Modernity 3. The Step of Faith: Searching
for the Face of God in Modern Life 4. The Dance of Religion: Do We Need It?
Part II. Dancing to the Music: Discipleship 5. The Way of Jesus and Human
Flourishing: Salvation and Atonement 6. The Eclipse of Desire and the
Freedom to Dance 7. The Desire to Dance: Toward a New Asceticism 8. Being
Music Makers: Church and Community in a New Era 9. The Scaffoldings of the
Future Bibliography Index