Call and Response: The Narrative Politics of Precedent and Structure in Oscar Micheaux’s Within Our Gates

A Rhetorics of the Word is the second volume of a three-part philosophy of Christian life. It approaches Christian life as expressive of a divine calling or vocation. The word Church (ekklesia) and the role of naming in baptism indicate the fundamental place of calling in Christian life. However, ideas of vocation are difficult to access in a world shaped by the experience of disenchantment. The difficulties of articulating vocation are explored with reference to Weber, Heidegger, and Kierkegaard. These are further connected to a general crisis of language, manifesting in the degradation of political discourse (Arendt) and the impact of new communications technology on human discourse. This impact can be seen as reinforcing an occlusion of language in favour of rationality already evidenced in the philosophical tradition and technocratic management. New possibilities for thinking vocation are pursued through the biblical prophets (with emphasis on Buber’s and Rosenzweig’s reinterpretation of the call of Moses), Saint John, and Russian philosophies of language (Florensky to Bakhtin). Vocation emerges as bound up with the possibility of being name-bearers, enabling a mutuality of call and response. This is then evidenced further in ethics and poetics, where Levinas and Hermann Broch (The Death of Virgil) become major points of reference. In conclusion, the themes of calling and the name are seen to shape the possibility of love—the subject of the final part of the philosophy of Christian life: A Metaphysics of Love.

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Waiting on Grace

10.1093/oso/9780198842194.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Michael Barnes, SJ

Keyword(s):

Jewish People ◽

Word Of God ◽

Human Beings ◽

Edith Stein ◽

Indelible Mark ◽

Theology Of Religions ◽

Biblical Narrative ◽

Call And Response ◽

Religious Sensibility ◽

The Matrix

Whereas much theology of religions regards ‘the other’ as a problem to be solved, this book begins with a Church called to witness to its faith in a multicultural world by practising a generous yet risky hospitality. A theology of dialogue takes its rise from the Christian experience of being-in-dialogue. Taking its rise from the biblical narrative of encounter, call, and response, such a theology cannot be fully understood without reference to the matrix of faith that Christians share in complex ways with the Jewish people. The contemporary experience of the Shoah, the dominating religious event of the twentieth century, has complexified that relationship and left an indelible mark on the religious sensibility of both Jews and Christians. Engaging with a range of thinkers, from Heschel, Levinas, and Edith Stein who were all deeply affected by the Shoah, to Metz, Panikkar, and Rowan Williams, who are always pressing the limits of what can and cannot be said with integrity about the self-revealing Word of God, this book shows how Judaism is a necessary, if not sufficient, source of Christian self-understanding. What is commended by this foundational engagement is a hope-filled ‘waiting on grace’ made possible by virtues of empathy and patience. A theology of dialogue focuses not on metaphysical abstractions but on biblical forms of thought about God’s presence to human beings which Christians share with Jews and, under the continuing guidance of the Spirit of Christ, learn to adapt to a whole range of contested cultural and political contexts.

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Human Spirituality: Jean-Louis Chrétien and the Vital Side of Speech

Religions ◽

10.3390/rel12070511 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (7) ◽

pp. 511

Author(s):

Peruzzotti Francesca

Keyword(s):

Fixed Points ◽

Religious Experience ◽

Holy Spirit ◽

Spiritual Experience ◽

Spiritual Life ◽

Call And Response ◽

Human Spirituality

Jean-Louis Chrétien founded his phenomenological enquiry on an analysis of the word as defined by the call and response link. His analysis provides an in-depth approach to spiritual experience as a basis for authentic religious experience. The description of the theoretical sites in which he confronts the theme of the spirit (vital breath, Holy Spirit, inspiration of Scripture, and spiritual life and prayer) determines some fixed points that allow us to define spiritual experience as intersubjective and fleshly, and therefore, not reducible to solipsism and intimism.

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Call and Response as Critical Method: African-American Oral Traditions and Beloved

African American Review ◽

10.2307/3042075 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 41 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Maggie Sale

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Oral Traditions ◽

Call And Response ◽

Critical Method

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Joan Miró’s Call and Response

EcoHealth ◽

10.1007/s10393-011-0693-y ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

pp. 554-555

Author(s):

Sara Howard ◽

Peter Daszak

Keyword(s):

Call And Response

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Sonification and Animation of Multivariate Data to Illuminate Dynamics of Geyser Eruptions

Computer Music Journal ◽

10.1162/comj_a_00551 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 44 (1) ◽

pp. 35-50

Author(s):

Anna Barth ◽

Leif Karlstrom ◽

Benjamin K. Holtzman ◽

Arthur Paté ◽

Avinash Nayak

Keyword(s):

Time Series Data ◽

Multivariate Data ◽

Rapid Identification ◽

Series Data ◽

Complex Data ◽

Learning Tools ◽

Call And Response ◽

Eruptive Cycle ◽

Nonstationary Data ◽

Auditory Systems

Abstract Sonification of time series data in natural science has gained increasing attention as an observational and educational tool. Sound is a direct representation for oscillatory data, but for most phenomena, less direct representational methods are necessary. Coupled with animated visual representations of the same data, the visual and auditory systems can work together to identify complex patterns quickly. We developed a multivariate data sonification and visualization approach to explore and convey patterns in a complex dynamic system, Lone Star Geyser in Yellowstone National Park. This geyser has erupted regularly for at least 100 years, with remarkable consistency in the interval between eruptions (three hours) but with significant variations in smaller scale patterns between each eruptive cycle. From a scientific standpoint, the ability to hear structures evolving over time in multiparameter data permits the rapid identification of relationships that might otherwise be overlooked or require significant processing to find. The human auditory system is adept at physical interpretation of call-and-response or causality in polyphonic sounds. Methods developed here for oscillatory and nonstationary data have great potential as scientific observational and educational tools, for data-driven composition with scientific and artistic intent, and towards the development of machine learning tools for pattern identification in complex data.

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