Theology as improvisation : a study in the musical nature of theological thinking /

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Author / Creator:	Crawford, Nathan.
Imprint:	Boston : Brill, 2013.
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in systematic theology, 1876-1518 ; v. 13 Studies in systematic theology ; v. 13.
Subject:	Theology. Music -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Music -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Theology. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11176040

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ISBN:	9789004245983 9004245987 9789004245969 9004245960
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	In Theology as Improvisation , Nathan Crawford reimagines the possibilities for how theology thinks God within a postmodern world. He argues that theology is improvisation by analyzing the nature of attunement within theological thinking and how this opens certain possibilities for theology. He does so by engaging a number of thinkers, including Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, David Tracy, and Saint Augustine. He navigates the nature of thinking God in a postmodern world by using these thinkers to offer critiques of onto-theological thinking and totalizing systems while also following their embrace of the fragment and focus upon the nature of thinking as attunement. The result is a unique way of approaching theological thinking in our contemporary context.
Other form:	Print version: Crawford, Nathan. Theology as improvisation. Boston : Brill, 2013 9789004245969

Table of Contents:

Machine generated contents note: A. Incomplete Account of Thinking God in the Christian Tradition
B. Problem
C. My Argument (or, a Modestly Proposed Solution)
D. Brief Excursus
Orienting Terms
1. Heidegger and the Question of Thinking
A. Pursuing the Path of Thinking
B. "Step Back"
Opening the Path to Being
C. Thinking as Attunement
D. Conclusion
2. Derrida and Attunement: Playing in a Deconstructive Mode
A. Deconstruction as Attunement
B. Hospitality as Attunement
C. Risking Interpretation
The Example of Translation
D. Concluding Remarks
3. Finding the Groove: Attunement as Musical Way of Thinking
A. Centrality of Listening
B. Place of Attunement in Improvisation
C. Improvisation as Transformation: Breaking the Musical Form
D. Conclusion
4. Attunement and Theology: Resonations with David Tracy
A. Theology as Conversation: The Problem of Totality and the Task of Theology
B. Naming God: The Turn to Form through the Fragment
C. Gathering: Rethinking the "System" of Theology
D. Excursus: An Ethics of Resistance
E. Conclusion
5. Theological Example: Augustine's Unstructuring of Theological Form
A. Basis of Theology: De Musica and the Basis of Theology
B. Finding the Groove: Rhetoric as Form in De Doctrina Christiana
C. Improvising Freely: The Form of the Confessions
D. Concluding Remarks
Conclusion: Well, Sort of
A. Relating the Parts to the Whole
B. Emphases for Theology.

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