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11 - Jesus in Art and Music

from Part II - The Diversity of Reception

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2024

By
Robin Jensen  and
Jeremy Begbie
Edited by
Markus Bockmuehl
Markus Bockmuehl
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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Summary

As this volume’s other chapters demonstrate, the primary material for accessing the person and character of Jesus of Nazareth will always be the New Testament texts. But the last two thousand years have witnessed a profusion of non-textual media rendering this endlessly absorbing figure. This chapter attends to the ways that artists through the ages have chosen to present him in modes other than words alone, considering visual art and music in particular.

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The New Cambridge Companion to Jesus , pp. 171 - 196
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Further Reading

Begbie, Jeremy S. 2007. Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music. Grand Rapids: Baker.Google Scholar
Begbie, Jeremy S. 2020. “Making the Familiar Unfamiliar: Macmillan’s St Luke Passion.” In James Macmillan Studies, edited by Parsons, George and Sholl, Robert, 111–28. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Butt, John. 2011. “George Frederic Handel and The Messiah.” In The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible, edited by Lieb, Michael, Mason, Emma, and Roberts, Jonathan, 294–306. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Coakley, Sarah. 2013. God, Sexuality and the Self: An Essay “on the Trinity”. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Freeman, Jennifer Awes. 2022. The Good Shepherd. Waco: Baylor University Press.Google Scholar
Harries, Richard. 2004. The Passion in Art. London: Routledge.Google Scholar
Horner, Al. 2020. “‘I Have a Sense of Urgency’: Sufjan Stevens Wakes from the American Dream.” The Guardian, September 25. www.theguardian.com/music/2020/sep/25/sufjan-stevens-interview-the-ascensionGoogle Scholar
Jensen, Robin M. 2017. The Cross: History, Art, and Controversy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Loewe, Andreas. 2014. Johann Sebastian Bach’s St John Passion (BWV 245): A Theological Commentary. Leiden: Brill.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
MacMillan, James. 2014. “Interview about St Luke Passion.” Boosey & Hawkes. www.boosey.com/cr/news/James-MacMillan-interview-about-new-St-Luke-Passion/100345.Google Scholar
Muir, Carolyn Diskant. 2013. Saintly Bridge and Bridegrooms. Turnhout: Brepols.Google Scholar
Shenton, Andrew. 2010. Messiaen the Theologian. Farnham: Ashgate.Google Scholar
Viladesau, Richard. 2020. The Wisdom and Power of the Cross: The Passion of Christ in Theology and the Arts. Oxford: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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