<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Nowadays, the drama of the incommunicability of the experience of God is perhaps one of the greatest problems that theology must face if it wants to establish a sincere dialogue with contemporary thought. A visit to contemporary theological art, and concretely to music, is an exercise that should be taken into consideration when one wishes to offer a word about God to our world and to men and women of these days. Through this article author wants underline that the relationship between theology and music could reveal itself as a way to discover the mysterious-symbolic presence of God which reveals itself.</p></abstract>

Nowadays, the drama of the incommunicability of the experience of God is perhaps one of the greatest problems that theology must face if it wants to establish a sincere dialogue with contemporary thought. A visit to contemporary theological art, and concretely to music, is an exercise that should be taken into consideration when one wishes to offer a word about God to our world and to men and women of these days. Through this article author wants underline that the relationship between theology and music could reveal itself as a way to discover the mysterious-symbolic presence of God which reveals itself.

The Fleeting Moment: The Sacramental Universe of Music, from the Aesthetic Form to the Empathetic Event

Prof. Dr. D. Jordi-Agustí Piqué i Collado OSB, Benedictine monk of the Montserrat Abbey, Catalonia-Spain, Dean of the Pontificio Istituto Liturgico, Roma, Italy, Invited Professor in the Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. Address: Pontificio Istituto Liturgico, Piazza Cavalieri di Malta 5, 00153 Roma, Italia

Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu

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Theology and Music: Languages of Transcendence

Nowadays, the drama of the incommunicability of the experience of God is perhaps one of the greatest problems that theology must face if it wants to establish...

The Fleeting Moment: The Sacramental Universe of Music, from the Aesthetic Form to the Empathetic Event

Published Online: Jan 06, 2016

Page range: 301 - 312

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ress-2015-0026

Keywords
Theology and Music, Languages of Transcendence, Aesthetic Form, Empathetic Event, contemporary musical art, meta-language, Theology of Experience, Emotion as “locus experientiæ”, musicological opening, liturgical music

© 2015 Jordi-Agustí Piqué i Collado, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The Fleeting Moment: The Sacramental Universe of Music, from the Aesthetic Form to the Empathetic Event

Published Online: Jan 06, 2016

Page range: 301 - 312

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ress-2015-0026

KeywordsTheology and Music, Languages of Transcendence, Aesthetic Form, Empathetic Event, contemporary musical art, meta-language, Theology of Experience, Emotion as “locus experientiæ”, musicological opening, liturgical music

© 2015 Jordi-Agustí Piqué i Collado, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Theology and Music, Languages of Transcendence, Aesthetic Form, Empathetic Event, contemporary musical art, meta-language, Theology of Experience, Emotion as “locus experientiæ”, musicological opening, liturgical music