I think I might

This original piece of music seeks to extend theological aesthetics’ focus on literature and representational arts to the artform of “musicking”. The underlying research position is that music-making is an essential form of human meaning-making beyond or even underlying the duality of verbal communication. The specific research question underlying I think I might is about the value of the age-old Christian life-option of celibacy “for the Reign of God”: is it the frustration of human sexuality? What meaning does it have, if any?

While there is a growing volume of works about music in theology, there is very little research attempting to theologise through music. Through its specific symbolic processes and semiotic patterning of experience and understanding, music can exteriorise aspects of conversion and Christian doctrine in ways that cannot be accessed solely through theoretical reasoning. I Think I Might explores the type of relationship with God that might make sense of the call to what the Church has called consecrated life, according to the mystical writings of Teresa of Avila.

This song was produced by Multi-Platinum Award Winning Producer Adrian Hannan at The Song Store, VIC; launched at The Cave Inn, Brisbane, while livestreamed to an international audience from across Australia, Asia, Europe, the USA, and Latin America; and released by Willow Publishing Party Ltd. In June 2022, it was published by Bloomsbury as an intrinsic part of chapter fifteen on "Is Celibacy Ever a Good Idea?” in Suspended God: Music and a Theology of Doubt.

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