Artists From Fer Release 'Searcher (Paradise Wall)' From Forthcoming Theology Music Album
Artists from Fer have released 'Searcher (Paradise Wall)', the first song from their forthcoming Theology Music Album.
The album is being produced collaboratively between indie artists and academics from the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University - in this case with Dr Silvianne Aspray and Dr Susann Kabisch. Each track in the album uncovers one attribute of the character of God that has either been forgotten or is often misunderstood. Music and lyrics are written by the artists, recasting academic texts into pop music form. The texts draw on the broad spectrum of Christian thinkers in history, including lesser known, but equally rich scholars.
This first song, titled 'Searcher, Paradise Wall' uses the writings of the renaissance theologian and philosopher Nicolas of Cusa, specifically, his work challenging the myth of God as merely an abstract concept that we can - through our own capabilities - grasp and control. Cusa uncovers God as a wholly other person, the search for whom is dangerously beyond our control.
