T&T Clark Suspended God: Music and a Theology of Doubt

Review In this book, Yelbasi supports his arguments by employing rich analyses based on hitherto unused archival documents. It is a valuable study for both academics and the general readers who are interested in late Ottoman and early Turkish Republican history.Maeve Heaney’s is a capacious heart. She is a contemplative of the mysteries of faith and of the gift of music, a practitioner of gospel ministry and song, and a thinker about faith, doubt, and beauty. All of this comes together in a generous and vulnerable invitation to theologians and pastors, musicians and artists, doubters and seekers, to explore what it means to believe, today and tomorrow. ―Michael O’Connor, University of Toronto, Canada Product Description Heaney traces the hidden history of music's presence in Christian thought, including its often unrecognized influence on key figures such as von Balthasar, Barth and Bonhoeffer. She uses Lonergan's theological framework to explore musical composition as a theological act, showing why, when and how music is a useful symbolic form. The book introduces eleven ground-breaking theologians, and each chapter offers an entry point into the thought of the theologian being presented through an original piece of music, which can be found on the companion website: https://bloomsbury.pub/suspended-god. Heaney argues that music is a universally important means of making sense of life with which theology needs to engage as a means of expression and of development. Musical composition is presented as an appropriate and even necessary form of doing theology in its quest to engage with the past, mediate truth to the present and tradition it into the future. About the Author Maeve Louise Heaney VDMF is a consecrated member of the Verbum Dei Community and Director of the Xavier Centre for Theological Formation at Australian Catholic University, Australia.