Extravagance of Music

David Brown is Emeritus Professor of Theology, Aesthetics and Culture, and Wardlaw Professor at the University of St Andrews, UK.Gavin Hopps is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Theology at the University of St Andrews and Director of the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts (ITIA), UK.

• 1. Introduction: an art open to the divine.- 2. A generous excess.- 3. Types of extravagance.- 4. Discovering god in music’s excess.- 5. Cultured despisers.- 6. Spilt religion.- 7. Conclusion.