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The Mystery of Music | Jeremy Begbie

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Theology and Music for Theology

The way we hear music is very different from the way we see the world. We don't say a note is there, but it's not there. What we hear fills the whole of our heard space. With three notes on a piano, those three strings will be resonating with each other. So they're actually enhancing each other as you hear them. Now if we go to the Trinity, it seems to me that a huge number of problems in thinking about the Trinity have arisen because we've relied too much on our eyes. But usually if you look at what people try to do with the Trinity, they're thinking visually.

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