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This chapter argues that the spatial metaphor of resonant ‘edgeless difference’, which arises from our perception of musical sound, makes more conceptualizable a vision of kenotic freedom which the New Testament understands to be embodied in Jesus Christ and made accessible through the Spirit, to the glory of the Father. This proposal is briefly explored in conversation with the Christology and theological aesthetics of Rowan Williams (1950–), who works within a kenotic idiom. We discover that a conceptuality borne of musical phenomenology can liberate Christological grammar from modernist strongholds and can direct our attention to the multiple, interconnected freedoms of the New Creation (i.e., the cosmic, ecclesiological, and individual). In so doing, it supports the idea that a Christ-centred kenotic theory of self-emptying provides a radical alternative to certain modernist views of freedom.

Author

Imogen Adkins

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN