the singularity of being and nothingness
Auto-Tune Theology
I’m not entirely sure where I really got to liking auto-tuning; it might be the hilarious Auto-Tune the News antics on the YouTube…
Anyway, I figured if the news can be auto-tuned, and rainbows can be auto-tuned, why not theology?
The Songs
| Title | Author | Read | Listen |
|---|---|---|---|
| Theosis | St. Athanasius | ||
| The Death of Christ | St. Athanasius | ||
| The Trinity | St. Athanasius | ||
| Disappearing Death | St. Athanasius |
Accepting Idea Submissions
My goal is to try to produce at least one new selection every 1-2 weeks. If you have a section from a theologian that you’d like auto-tuned, feel free to submit an idea. For all submissions, please follow these guidelines:
- The selection should be 200 words or less. While this seems like a very small word count limit, you’d be surprised how long that number of words can make a song…
- The selection should be from an orthodox Christian theologian, or at least from an orthodox phase in their writings. Therefore, some selections from Origen are acceptable, but others are not.
- The selection should be something for which the theologian is moderately well-known, or at least pertain to a subject to which they devoted a reasonable amount of ink. The idea is to glean the important thoughts from their writings, not random tid-bits which they did not seriously develop.
- The selection should be theological in content, meaning it pertains directly to articles of Christian belief. So then, writing about the resurrection, then nature of the Word, etc. are acceptable while snippets dealing with epistemology, phenomenology, etc. are not.
- The selection must be from a work that is freely accessible online in its entirety. Part of the intention of this series is to point people toward theological literature that they might not otherwise know about, and I want them to be able to interact with it without having to buy a book.
- Most importantly, the acceptance of the submission is ultimately up to my whim. Beyond the passage’s orthodoxy, I will judge each submission on sheer coolness, its importance to theological history, and how well it can be ported to this or that phat beat.
Submit Your Own
Perhaps you have an inkling to try to make your own auto-tuning of a theological writing. If you do, feel free to submit it and I’ll feature it in this series if it meets the criteria outlined above.
