Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Jeremy Begbie

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Jeremy Sutherland Begbie, BA, BD, PhD, LRAM, ARCM, is Thomas A. Langford Distinguished Research Professor of Theology at Duke Divinity School, Duke University, where he directs Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts. He is a systematic theologian whose primary research interest is the correlation between theology and the arts, in particular the interplay between music and theology. He is also an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge.

Born: 1957

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In much postmodern theatre ... the line between theatre and non-theatre is deliberately erased.

Jeremy Begbie

Only with great care. For thousands, carols will be their only link with a church. At the same time, sentimentality is perhaps the single most dangerous feature of our Church and culture-and the sentimental air is never thicker than at Christmas. The Incarnation is messy, dirty, and resonates with the crucifixion. We need a new wave of carol writing that can gradually swill out the nonsense and catch the piercing, joy-through-pain refrains of the New Testament.

Jeremy Begbie

One of the primary services the arts can render to theology is their integrative power, their ability to interrelate the intellect with the other facets of our human makeup.

Jeremy Begbie

Art reminds us that in fact the world always exceeds our grasp and perception.

Jeremy Begbie

Christians are a polyphonic people.

Jeremy Begbie