A M Coates
Biographic Data
| ID | 9644467 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A M Coates |
| GIVEN NAMES | A M |
| FAMILY NAME | Coates |
| SIGNATURE | COATES A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Free State |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3277-8477 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Towards a contextual theology of conviviality
Both Tutu and Bonhoeffer embraced conviviality as an attribute of Christian life, not only as theory, but also in practice. Both also drew from lived experience in an effort to articulate their respective theologies of conviviality. We discuss the experience of music and musical metaphors as a lens through which to explore this relationship between lived experience and an explicit theology of conviviality. Bonhoeffer’s metaphor of the “polyphony …
Bonhoeffer on amusing ourselves to death
In 1985, Neil Postman famously and presciently bemoaned a world “amusing itself to death.” Ironically and significantly, it is amidst the atrocities of Nazism and the struggle against Hitler that from his prison cell Bonhoeffer reflects on a faithful Christian response to sensory immediacy, calling for the church to found Kierkegaard’s notion of aesthetic existence anew. This, he suggests, should neither entail an embrace of aesthetic existence a…
Beauty Lived Towards Shalom
The apparent irrelevance of beauty to questions of justice reflects a problematic schism between aesthetic and ethical existence. While a theological aesthetics focused on the transcendent nature of beauty offers an important contribution, such an understanding of the place of beauty in human existence is incomplete without a complementary understanding of it as this-worldly: beauty as lived, as a relational category impelled by visceral desire a…
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Beauty Lived Towards Shalom
The apparent irrelevance of beauty to questions of justice reflects a problematic schism between aesthetic and ethical existence. While a theological aesthetics focused on the transcendent nature of beauty offers an important contribution, such an understanding of the place of beauty in human existence is incomplete without a complementary understanding of it as this-worldly: beauty as lived, as a relational category impelled by visceral desire a…
Bonhoeffer on amusing ourselves to death
In 1985, Neil Postman famously and presciently bemoaned a world “amusing itself to death.” Ironically and significantly, it is amidst the atrocities of Nazism and the struggle against Hitler that from his prison cell Bonhoeffer reflects on a faithful Christian response to sensory immediacy, calling for the church to found Kierkegaard’s notion of aesthetic existence anew. This, he suggests, should neither entail an embrace of aesthetic existence a…
Towards a contextual theology of conviviality
Both Tutu and Bonhoeffer embraced conviviality as an attribute of Christian life, not only as theory, but also in practice. Both also drew from lived experience in an effort to articulate their respective theologies of conviviality. We discuss the experience of music and musical metaphors as a lens through which to explore this relationship between lived experience and an explicit theology of conviviality. Bonhoeffer’s metaphor of the “polyphony …
Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (1 work) · Christian Theology and Mission (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Existence of God (1 work) · Immediacy (1 work) · Literature (1 work) · Musical (1 work) · Philosophy (1 work)