Table of Contents

Introduction
Part 1: Pressures of Containment
1. Reductive Pressures
2. The Arts under Pressure
3. A Scriptural Interruption: Seeing and Not Seeing (John 9:1-34)
4. Reductionism's Peculiarities
5. A Scriptural Interruption: Living Water and Overflow (John 4:1-15)
Part 2: Counterpressures
6. Art's Generativity
7. God's Uncontainable Pressure
8. God's Own "Ex-pressure"
Part 3: Convergences
9. Resonances and Reverberations
10. Open Feast
Index

About the Author

Jeremy S. Begbie (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is Thomas A. Langford Distinguished Research Professor of Theology and McDonald Agape Director of Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts at Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina. He served as Honorary Professor of theology at the University of St. Andrews; Associate Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge; and as an affiliated lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. A professionally trained musician, Begbie has lectured widely in the UK, the US, and worldwide, and is the author of many books, including Theology, Music and Time and the award-winning Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music.