This collection of essays by Robert Funk delves into the contributions of notable artists and intellectuals, including Kafka, Beckett, Henry Miller, Castaneda, Fowles, and Thoreau, to illuminate the true successors of Jesus. In the section titled 'Voices of Silence,' Funk examines the interplay between language and contemporary reality. He ultimately addresses the pivotal theological question of whether individuals can identify a genuine world to which they can fully commit, offering twenty-one propositions on theology in response.
Taking the relational theology of Carter Heyward as a starting point, Dirk von der Horst draws out three themes in the theology of music: relation, transience, and injustice. Von der Horst uses Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and Walter Murphy’s disco version A Fifth of Beethoven to guide the discussion. A one hour presentation and thirty minutes of Q and A
