March 12–14, 2019 - Jeremy Begbie
We are very pleased to announce our Scholar-in-Residence for 2019 will be Jeremy Begbie.
The power of music to change hearts and minds is legendary. In these four lectures, Dr. Begbie explores what it is about music that makes it so powerful a medium of Christian faith. In the process we will discover how we can experience more deeply, and think through more clearly four key themes: hope, freedom, lament, and resurrection. The lectures will include live performance at the piano.
Scheduled Lectures
The following lectures will take place in Hartley Recital Hall in Jennings Hall:
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March 12, 2019, 10:50 a.m.
Music and Hope -
March 12, 2019, 7 p.m.
Freedom -
March 14, 2019, 10:50 a.m.
Lament -
March 14, 2019, 7 p.m.
Resurrection
Lectures are free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Honors Community of Union University.
About Jeremy Begbie
Dr. Begbie is Thomas A. Langford Distinguished Professor in Theology at Duke Divinity School. He is also Senior Member at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge. He is Founding Director of Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts, one of the main aims of which is to foster theological-artistic links between Duke and Cambridge. Prior to his present appointment, he held a personal chair at the University of St Andrews and was Associate Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge.
Educated largely in Scotland, before studying theology at Aberdeen and Cambridge, he read music and philosophy at Edinburgh University. Holding piano performing and teaching qualifications, he is also an oboist, and a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music.
He has published extensively, his particular interest being the interplay between the arts and theology, bringing to light the different ways they can illuminate and benefit each other. His books include A Peculiar Orthodoxy: Reflections on Theology and the Arts (Baker Academic), Redeeming Transcendence in the Arts: Bearing Witness to the Triune God (Eerdmans), Theology, Music and Time (CUP), Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music (Baker), and Music, Modernity, and God (OUP). He tours widely as a speaker, specializing in multimedia performance-lectures. Recent engagements have included preaching, speaking and performing in universities and churches in North America, Hong Kong and Australia.