TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pelikan,Jaroslav
TI  - Bach among the theologians
SN  - 0800607929
AV  - ML410.B1 P37 1986
U1  - 230/.41/0924 19
PY  - 1986///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - Fortress Press
KW  - Bach, Johann Sebastian,
KW  - Bach, Johann Sebastian.
KW  - Lutheran Church
KW  - Doctrines
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - Religion
KW  - Theologie
KW  - gnd
KW  - Kirchenmusik
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-154) and index; 1. The four seasons of J.S. Bach -- 2. The musical heritage of the Reformation -- 3. Rationalism and aufklarung in Bach's career -- 4. Confessional orthodoxy in Bach's religion -- 5. Pietism, piety, and devotion in Bach's cantatas -- 6. Themes and variations in the Bach passions -- 7. "Meditation on human redemption" in the Saint Matthew Passion -- 8. "Christus Victor" in the Saint John Passion -- 9. Aesthetics and evangelical catholicity in the B-minor Mass -- 10. Johann Sebastian Bach between sacred and secular notes -- 11. Notes -- 12. Index
N2  - BACH AMONG THE THEOLOGIANS is Pelikan's appreciation of Bach as a highly creative man who was truly a man of his own time. He puts to rest the somewhat artificial argument about the sacred and secular strains in Bach's work. This "tension" ultimately does not seem to have been as big a deal for Bach as it has become for modern historians, musicians, theologians, etc. Perhaps, because Bach's sense of the sacred was much more encompassing than we highly compartmentalized moderns ever allow it to be. In any case, the fact that so many highly divergent groups want to claim Bach as their own is probably sufficient proof of Bach's transcendent greatness
ER  -