Music in the Catholic Tradition | Dr. George Corbett

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🗓️ 10 August 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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This lecture was given on April 21, 2022 at The Christian Heritage Centre at Stonyhurst as part of "Catholicism and the Arts: An Intellectual Retreat." For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Dr George Corbett joined the School of Divinity in 2015. Previously, he held positions as Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy, Trinity College, and affiliated lecturer in Italian, University of Cambridge, where he also taught English literature and theology. He received his BA (double first), MPhil (distinction), and PhD (AHRC-funded) from the University of Cambridge. He has also studied in Pisa (as an Erasmus-Socrates exchange scholar at La Scuola Normale Superiore), Rome (Institutum Pontificium Alterioris Latinitatis), and Montella (Vivarium Novum). Dr Corbett directs CEPHAS (a Thomistic Centre for Philosophy and Scholastic Theology), TheoArtistry (a project linking up theologians and artists), and is leading on a new collaborative MLitt in Sacred Music.

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0:11.7	In the homily of his inauguration in 2005, Pope Benedict XVI, renewed his call for the path
0:18.5	of beauty, the via Pulcritudiness. It is this call, there is nothing more
0:23.6	beautiful than to know Christ and to speak to others of our friendship with him that also provides
0:29.9	the preface for the concluding document of the Pontipical Council of Culture's plenary assembly
0:34.4	issued the following year in 2006, responding to the prevailing religious
0:40.3	indifference, materialism and unbelief in early 21st century culture, and to a society in which
0:46.9	truth itself and ethics in particular are under threat, whether instrumentalised by ideologies,
0:53.2	relativise so that objective truth becomes hard to discern or flattened,
0:57.1	so that the good is horizontalised into a merely social act.
1:01.0	Pope Benedict XVIth and the Council proposed this way of beauty
1:04.9	as a pathway of evangelisation of cultures and dialogue with non-believers,
1:09.5	leading to Christ the way, the truth and the life.
1:13.3	For Pope Benedict XVIth, an accomplished amateur pianist as well as a professional theologian,
1:20.2	music appears to have been a particularly privileged pathway to God.
1:24.9	Speaking in 2015, he asked, what in reality is music? From whence does it come?
1:32.1	And to what does it tend? The first source he suggests is the experience of being seized by
1:39.8	love, an experience which opens up a new dimension of being, a greatness and breadth of reality
1:46.9	which impels expression through poetry, through song and through music. The second source is the
1:55.0	experience of sadness being touched by death, by pain, and by the abysses of existence,
2:02.6	which elicits a dimension of reality that again cannot be expressed through words alone.
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