Themes To Group Various Bibliographical References

Question 1

Music in culture, music as culture, music is culture, music - culture.

Answer 1

Roberta King (2013) Chapter 22: “Musical Bridges and Christian communication: lessons for the church,” She gathers thoughts from Titon ( 2009), Merriam ( 1964 ), craft in his Christianity and Culture (1979 ); the music culture of Israel: Sendrey (1969) and Braun ( 2002 ). This is all towards a theology of music-in-context.

Question 2

Contextualization and syncretism, including that with music and all the arts

Answer 2

Vida chenoweth (2013/1984 ), Rayl (2013) with visual art contextualization examples from Tibet, Australia, and South Asia, Hawn and Lim (2013) with multisensory symbol examples used in cross-cultural communication, challenges of contextualization in the Indian church’s corporate worship (Joseph 2013).

Question 3

Sun Chenhui. 2021. “The Bible and Chinese Church Music.” In The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in China. Edited by K. K. Yeo.

Answer 3

“The challenging task of constructing a robust identity of ‘fully Chinese and fully Christian’ music remains a significant one for the Chinese church.”

This is due to three summarized reasons:

1. ) Are Chinese musical instruments considered (by anyone) inferior for use in Christian worship?
   2) what is “musicality”? Is it possible that Chinese Christian music so far on Chinese musical instruments or yinyue hui has not been done properly or beautifully?
   3) could it be that the Chinese Church is still in the young age of forming it’s Christian identity?

Question 4

Sklar 1991 and 2000

Answer 4

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Question 5

Baur 2013

Answer 5

Commissioning, arts and crafts fairs and exhibition sponsored by the church, etc. (Arts Ministry book)

Question 6

(Brand and Chaplin 2001)

Answer 6

We must not worry about whether or not our worldview will come through. We must work with our creativity and display our character and our worldview will reveal itself even without words.

When the pressures of a community weigh heavily on an artist to make “Christian” art, sometimes what is left is not even art.

We live in a world created in duality, beautiful/fallen, 100% man/God, already/not yet, etc. It is in these real paradoxes that call is to dig deeper into both the truths of scripture and to fulfill the Great Commission to go out into the world being in it and not of it. A Greek to the Greeks and a Jew to the Jews, living out Phil. 2 Christ-like lives.
(Imago Dei: Best 2003, Dryness 2001, Brand and Chaplin 2001)

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Question 7

Truth, Goodness, and Beauty

Answer 7

(Baur 2001; Fujimura 2017)

Question 8

Marketplace and societal witness in visual arts

Answer 8

(Brand and Chaplin 2001; Fujimura 2017)

Question 9

Best 2003, in the lack of arts communication from many Christian traditions regarding sharing with others…

Answer 9

“We have thought so narrowly about Christ and salvation that we have only formulaistic ways to talk to others.”(81)