Abstract
This paper aims to draw a parallel between music and theology as performance activities, through an examination of the role of ‘text’ in each discipline, and of their inherent commitments to improvisation. By drawing upon the ways in which musicology has begun self-consciously to turn its attention towards the task of performance, this paper explores the ways in which Christian faith, and its scholarship, should afford a self-conscious turn towards its own performance.
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