Autumn Talk – Music and Monotheism
11 November, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
A talk by Gareth Wilson - If you'd like to attend, please RSVP to the parish office for catering purposes as a light supper will be provided.
What connects the phenomenon of music as an art with the belief in the one indivisible God? What has music, a non-linguistic medium, to say about the personal, loving, communicative God of Scripture and the Prophets, or the omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, transcendent God of the philosophers and can it bring these 'concepts of God' together? In this talk, Gareth Wilson speaks to us about his recent book for Cambridge University Press that explores these themes, which suggests that communication allowed by music, and aesthetic experience in general, is the very raison d'être of Abrahamic monotheism and might thus allow an opportunity for dialogue between the monotheistic faiths