Jeremy Begbie
Jeremy Begbie is Thomas A. Langford Distinguished Research Professor of Theology at Duke Divinity School and McDonald Agape Director of Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts. His books include Theology, Music and Time (2000), Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music (2007), Music, Modernity and God (2014), and most recently, Abundantly More: The Theological Promise of the Arts in a Reductionist World (2023). He teaches systematic theology, and he specializes in the interface between theology and the arts. His particular research interest is the interplay between music and theology. He is also Senior Member at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge. Previously he has been Associate Principal at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, and Honorary Professor at the University of St Andrews where he directed the research project, Theology Through the Arts, at the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts. A professionally trained and active musician, Begbie has taught widely in the UK and North America, and delivered multimedia performance-lectures across the world, from Israel to Australia and Hong Kong.
Media & Publications
- Creative Sweat – Video
- Music, Modernity, and God Essays in Listening – Book
- Resonant Witness: Conversations Between Theology and Music – Book
- Art, Imagination and Christian Hope: Patterns of Promise – Book