Discipleship, Secularity, and the Modern Self: Dancing to Silent Music

Judith A. Merkle examines the situation of Christian spirituality today, in a secular age, through the images of dance, silence, and music. Drawing on the work of Charles Taylor as well as core aspects of the tradition of Christian theology on discipleship, Merkle asks how these new conditions affect the practice of Christianity as modern discipleship.

The author calls God the music maker. She argues that response to the reality of God can be captured through the image of dance. Merkle remin...