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The Sacramentality of Music

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Steeped in the Catholic spiritual tradition, The Sacramentality of Music argues that musical experience, in its appeal to the entirety of the human person, can serve as a locus of encounter with the divine and an occasion of God's self-revelation in love, with spiritually nurturing, ultimately transformative, ends. Christina Labriolacontends that this dynamic might most aptly be understood as sacramental, an all-encompassing perspective of the cosmos permeated by the divine creative, salvific, sustaining presence. Through its participation in the mysteries of beauty and creativity, its bodily and affective engagement, and impact on the inner life, music operates sacramentally: manifesting divine realities through the tangible stuff of human experience. In a thematic theological exploration that interweaves pastoral theology, theological aesthetics, and mysticism, the reader is invited to contemplate music's sacramental potentiality and to engage the sacramentally charged music of Beethoven, Bartok, MacMillan, Messiaen, Mozart, Esenvalds, Bach, Paert, and Hildegard. In attending to musical ways of relating to God, this book invites readers into a deepening awareness of the sacramental nature of reality itself as that in which the spiritual resonance of music is grounded and reveals afresh, taking musical beauty seriously in the spiritual order with repercussions for Christian living.
Christina Labriola is director of music in the Office of Campus Ministry at the University of St. Michael's College.
Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One: Music and Sacramentality in the Catholic Imagination Chapter Two: Music and Incarnation Chapter Three: Music and Beauty Chapter Four: Music and Contemplation Chapter Five: Music, Christian Discipleship, and Marian Fruitfulness Conclusion Appendix: Sacramentality of Music "Praylist": Music Selections Bibliography About the Author
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