UT-Chattanooga's LeRoy Martin Distinguished Lecture Series + Theology on Tap presents
Dr. Jeremy Begbie, Duke Divinity School
Title: "The Sound of Freedom: The Music of Liberation"
In this multimedia lecture, Jeremy Begbie will argue that pictures of freedom in modernity have been plagued by competitive, ‘zero-sum’ models—God’s freedom and the world’s are portrayed as mutually exclusive. This depends on basically visual ways of thinking about space. By contrast, two simultaneously sounding musical notes do not occupy bounded locations in our aural space, but interpenetrate, while remaining audibly distinct. Using performed and recorded music, Begbie will show that our sense of hearing can help us radically re-conceive and re-articulate a theology of freedom.