tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35474592012-02-16T14:08:22.425ZFides ex audituReflective Journal by Andy Edwards on theology, art, culture, music et al.Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.comBlogger361100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-65856563203447306112008-04-20T02:52:00.002+01:002008-04-20T02:53:29.584+01:00This blog has moved....Please visit the new site for this blog, where I fully intend to publish more often. :)Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-64302510045134276912007-09-29T22:26:00.000+01:002007-09-29T23:43:18.044+01:00table of contentsThe following is the table of contents to Fides ex auditu, my recently submitted dissertation.FIDES EX AUDITU:DOGMATIC THEOLOGY AND THE ECCLESIAL PRACTICE OF MUSICACKNOWLEDGMENTSLIST OF ABBREVIATIONSCHAPTER I: INTRODUCTIONSpeech and Song in Jean-Luc Godard’s One Plus OneThe Quest for Aesthetic and Moral NormativityTaste, Normativity and the Ecclesial Practice of MusicThe Kerygmatic Role of the Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-60585626418679001092007-05-04T05:37:00.000+01:002007-05-04T09:20:22.143+01:00Zen and the Art of Cabin MaintenanceHow many things can I work on today? Right now I'm waiting for the caffeine to kick in for that second wind I need to shelve all my books. (The problem is that they need to be put in a sensible order. I won't create my own database with call numbers - like I did in seminary - but some minimal amount of organization is required.)The day started at 7:30, since Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-74060858272663835742007-04-28T20:35:00.000+01:002007-04-28T20:57:39.286+01:00So tonight's my last shift at Barnes & Noble. Reflecting upon the many humorous and non-humorous incidences that have occurred during my tenure there, there is one recent story that stands out as a moral lesson.With Mother's Day coming up on 13 May, the store has been filling its seasonal tables and displays with all kinds of gifts and books related to the blessings of motherhood.Mind you, a Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-18124328141724256462007-04-27T23:27:00.000+01:002007-04-27T23:38:35.437+01:00Having recently watched Blood Diamond with my wife, we were struck at how blessed we are. We do not live in fear of attacking mobs, though I can recall such an experience four years ago. I always meant to put my Cambodian experiences into writing; I guess now is as good a time as any….On 29 January 2003, we were traveling from one side of Phnom Penh to the other. We'd left the United Methodist Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-1131682208774886862005-11-11T03:44:00.000Z2005-11-11T04:10:08.786Z LWF President Mark Hanson interviewed on Vatican Radio today.Listen to the streaming audio here or download an mp3 here. (See also my blogs yesterday and the day before that.)Hanson briefly discusses how then-Cardinal Ratzinger “intervened as a theologian coming out of the German context who knows Lutherans well,” thus saving the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification when it looked Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-1131584945468817062005-11-10T00:47:00.000Z2005-11-10T01:11:28.720Z Methodist to preach at inauguration of Church of England's General SynodOn 15 November, Frances Young, recently retired Cadbury Professor of Theology at Univ. of Birmingham, will deliver the eucharistic sermon just before HM the Queen inaugurates the Eighth General Synod, which will last for the next five years.C of E news bulletin is here.Gary Hopkins' article for Ekklesia is here.Maria Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-1131577483928535322005-11-09T23:01:00.000Z2005-11-09T23:59:06.606ZVatican Radio has a report today on Monday's celebration of the Joint Declaration on Justification.I blogged on this yesterday.Tomorrow's Vatican Radio will feature an interview with LWF President Mark Hanson, in which he will describe then-Cardinal Ratzinger's role in securing the Joint Declaration.Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-1131504326578038202005-11-09T02:32:00.000Z2006-07-27T20:47:43.380+01:00Tim Kaine just won the Virginia Gubernatorial ElectionI met him when he was mayor of Richmond. Good guy, as far as I could tell. Committed to racial reconciliation. And hard on Chesterfield County's resistance to public transportation. Hopefully he can keep - and extend - the progressive policies of Mark Warner. (And maybe now Warner can run for president? One can only hope!)Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-1131503460908865692005-11-09T02:14:00.000Z2005-11-09T02:31:00.920Z My Blog on Rev. Ed Johnson I know I’m late in my attention to this matter, but I can at least offer up the more recent action by the Council of Bishops. My attention is on two theological issues, both of which were raised by Rev. Thomas (the advocate for Rev. Johnson) and answered by Bsp. Timothy Whitaker (Florida Annual Conference): the authority of bishops, and the nature of repentance. But Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-1131492006968849062005-11-08T22:56:00.000Z2005-11-09T23:09:25.600ZLutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogue mentions Methodist ecumenical involvementYesterday the LWF (Lutheran World Federation) met with Pope Benedict XVI, thanking him for his leadership in the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification.Pope Benedict's address appears to be a bit more cautious, stating in a few places that many differences remain and that patience is required to deal with such Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-1131414560355172522005-11-08T01:45:00.000Z2005-11-08T01:49:20.363ZSo I'm now contributing to another blog. Every week I post a summary of the next week's articles in Lectionary Homiletics (the journal I edit). Check it out.Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-1111022218209751342005-03-17T00:43:00.000Z2005-03-17T01:18:58.866ZI've been rather busy with the dissertation lately (and with play rehearsal...and the bluegrass combo!), so I haven't posted. But I was just reminded of a most excellent hymn of Charles Wesley's: O the depth of love divine (from Hymns on the Lord's Supper [1745], no. 57). O the depth of love divine, th’unfathomable grace!Who shall say how bread and wine God into us conveys!How the bread Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-1108261600221298432005-02-13T02:26:00.000Z2005-02-13T02:26:40.223ZHere's some of what I'm reading these days... Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-1108254428748251292005-02-13T00:27:00.000Z2005-02-13T00:27:08.746ZHere's another photo I took in Cambodia, February 2003. Makes a good desktop for Windows. Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-1108253043704978172005-02-12T23:16:00.000Z2005-02-13T00:07:49.780ZWell, things have been quite busy, and this blog has been about the last thing on my mind. I was reminded by it, however, when I learned that a friend of mine has started his own on Blogspot. It's on "the Methodist tradition and its history, present state and the future." Check it out here.While I'm thinking about it, congratulations to Hans Vaxby on his recent election as bishop of the Eurasia Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-1098921498039033712004-10-28T00:58:00.000+01:002004-10-28T00:58:18.040+01:00Here is the most recent promotional piece for my new bluegrass band, No Strings Attached. Don "Six-Gun" Collett on guitar (left) and Mark "Smiles" Wallace on banjo (right). That's me in the middle (on bass). Photo credit: Matt Jenson. Setting: St. Mary's Quad. The thorn bush in the foreground was planted by Mary Queen of Scots in the early sixteenth century. For real. I'm not kidding. Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-1096934136109961402004-10-05T01:07:00.000+01:002004-10-05T01:02:42.500+01:00Please excuse the absence
I realise (US spelling: realize) that I have not posted in several weeks, and for that I apologise (US: apologize) to my r4 or 5 regular readers.
I've moved back to St Andrews and things have been a whirlwind. I finally have study space in the Roundel! Extracurricularly, I've joined a bluegrass combo (No Strings Attached), rejoined the Psalmody Choir (for the Mitre Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-1094945645908872382004-09-12T01:26:00.000+01:002004-09-13T19:43:59.000+01:00Non-Canonical Music Criticism
Earlier this week I read Gary Tomlinson’s essay, "Cultural Dialogics and Jazz: A White Historian Signifies." (pp. 64-94 of Disciplining Music: Musicology and its Canons, which I mentioned in an earlier blog).
Tomlinson explicates the practice of 'dialogical knowledge', cohering with Derrida's admirable imperative to 'speak the other's language without renouncing [Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-1094458030129042792004-09-06T09:07:00.000+01:002004-09-06T09:07:10.130+01:00BlueBeat Revue at Alley Katz in Richmond, VA, 1998 (or 1999?). Left to right: Rich Stine, myself, Nick Panos, Gordy Haab.Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-1094457830876245792004-09-06T09:03:00.000+01:002004-09-06T09:03:50.876+01:00The 'Heart of Midlothian' on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. I was born & raised in Midlothian, Virginia, which was named by Scottish coalminers (first coalmines in North America!).Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-1094457468840879322004-09-06T08:57:00.000+01:002004-09-06T08:57:48.840+01:00A self-portrait of Peter Paul Rubens. Photo taken at the Rubenshuis, Antwerp, January 2004 (just minutes before security yelled, "No pictures!!!")Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-1094457241509091102004-09-06T08:54:00.000+01:002004-09-06T08:54:01.510+01:00Angkor Wat, Cambodia. I took this photo in February 2003.Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-1094454747339133262004-09-06T06:45:00.001+01:002004-09-06T08:22:10.280+01:00More on Van Gogh
I should mention two books by my friend, Cliff Edwards (no relation that we can think of). He teaches Religious Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University in my hometown of Richmond, VA. His most recent book, The Shoes of Van Gogh, has a chapter devoted to the Heidegger/Derrida debate.
This book reprints a foreword by Henri Nouwen, which was originally prepared for Edwards' Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-1094356597788877292004-09-04T16:43:00.000+01:002004-09-05T09:49:34.100+01:00RESEARCH TRIP CONCLUSION
Later that night in NYC
After leaving the museum, however, all hell broke loose while trying to get back to the train station. Note to self: When a major political event, one with the potential to repeat historical catastrophes (e.g. 1968 DNC in Chicago), is occurring next door to where you need to catch your train... just go to the next station down. A successful Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-1094355466416561962004-09-04T16:00:00.000+01:002004-09-05T09:56:33.756+01:00RESEARCH TRIP PART FOUR
Tuesday in NYC
Part Two: Redemption
Disappointed from not being able to see the Fouquet page, I walked all around the museum. My goodness, that place is huge. Too many great works to name here. But the best find came with two particular Van Gogh works, both from 1888, and both refer to works from 1885.
I first noticed Van Gogh's Oleanders, not so much for the beautiful Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-1094352577050717512004-09-04T15:18:00.000+01:002004-09-05T07:34:51.833+01:00RESEARCH TRIP PART THREE
Tuesday in NYC
PART ONE: Disappointment
Took the PATH train over to Manhattan, then took the subway up to the Upper East Side. After the obligatory sidewalk hotdog, we entered the Metropolitan Museum of Art and stayed until closing time.
My primary reason for going there was to see one thing: a page from Etienne Chevalier's Book of Hours (painted by Jean Fouquet).
I Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-1094349569446796882004-09-04T14:56:00.000+01:002004-09-06T09:16:22.763+01:00RESEARCH TRIP PART TWO
Monday in Princeton
I spent Monday in the special collections of Princeton Theological Seminary, particularly the reading room of the Karl Barth Research Center. Curator/Director Clifford Anderson was MOST helpful in recommending resources of which I was completely unaware.
Karl Barth, Swiss Reformed Theologian, 1886-1968
One particular resource I will mention here: theAndyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-1094249486942761812004-09-03T22:54:00.000+01:002004-09-05T07:44:55.730+01:00RESEARCH TRIP PART ONEFriday-Sunday
I left work Friday afternoon to spend the weekend with some friends on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Had a very relaxing time, reminiscing about high school days in Midlothian, Virginia, and learning whatever happened with so-and-so, etc. And then there was the Cape Charles Ghost Tour, written and occasionally led by Eastern Shore writer-director, Scott Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-1094246255858507592004-09-03T21:56:00.000+01:002004-09-06T09:44:26.823+01:00What I've been doing in the past 27 months...
So when I started this blog, I'd just completed a Th.M. (Master of Theology). It was the first time since the age of five that I'd not been registered to return to school in the fall, so I wanted some kind of outlet for my thoughts.
As you can see those thoughts were short-lived.
So I worked for the next year, as associate editor for a homiletical Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-1094240767290381142004-09-03T21:44:00.000+01:002004-09-03T20:50:40.846+01:00Okay, it's been a couple of YEARS since I touched this thing (27 months to the day, in fact). I'd forgotten I ever even had a blog. I'll post more in coming days & weeks.
Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-773187672002-06-04T05:42:00.000+01:002002-06-04T05:42:50.706+01:00My sermon is coming along nicely, though I'm having a hermeneutical difficulty. The biblical text is Genesis 12:1-9, where YHWH calls Abram to go into the land "that I will show you." The difficulty comes after Abram enters Shechem (present-day Nablus) and YHWH says, "This is the land that I will give to your descendents." So Abram builds an altar there. But then, Abram travels about 20 miles Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-772104112002-06-01T06:06:00.000+01:002002-06-01T06:09:20.000+01:00I'm afraid that I didn't get to read any more of Fukuyama's book today. Nor have I solved the fundamentals of my earlier statement regarding the priority of "value" before "fact". But I'll offer another musing, one that is more sentimental and elementary than is usual for me.
As I sat in a sub shop today, eating my lunch and lamenting the fact that I forgot to bring a book, I noticed something Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-771700902002-05-31T05:08:00.000+01:002002-05-31T05:08:50.563+01:00Now that this is on-line, I hope to include musings on what I'm reading and observing in the world. This will not be a diary where I'll tell what I did all day, but rather a writing journal. Now that I'm temporarily (I hope) out of graduate school, I need a forum to keep my mind in shape. The fact that this weblog is publicly posted should provide enough incentive that my musings will be written Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-771690182002-05-31T04:41:00.000+01:002002-05-31T04:41:32.933+01:00Testing, testing...Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547459.post-771689902002-05-31T04:40:00.000+01:002002-05-31T04:40:37.510+01:00Testing, testing...Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12360625861788588436noreply@blogger.com0