Canterbury Cathedral and the University of Kent present
Faith, Culture and the Arts
Deus Ex Musica: Leveraging the Unique Power of Contemporary Sacred Music
Wednesday 7 October. 16:00-17:30 - Online Event
This interactive presentation will introduce Deus Ex Musica, a unique organization that uses new sacred music to foster theological thinking, spiritual formation, ecumenical dialogue, and interfaith learning.
DEM founder Delvyn Case will introduce the philosophy and vision of the organization, discuss the unique ways it leverages the unique power of contemporary sacred music, and then lead participants through a miniature version of one of the workshops DEM has presented in the US and UK.
The University of Kent and Canterbury Cathedral present regular seminars on Faith, Culture, and the Arts, to exploring key themes of theology, culture, spirituality, the arts, and social justice in an accessible and inclusive setting.
These seminars are organised by the Michael Ramsey Chair in Theology, Professor of Faith, Culture and the Arts, Jonathan Arnold.
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Founder, Deus Ex Musica
Delvyn Case
Delvyn Case maintains an interdisciplinary career as a unique voice in in the global conversation on the intersections of music and faith.
A composer, conductor, writer, scholar, and educator, his work explores the ways sacred music can serve as a resource for theological thinking, Biblical interpretation, interfaith dialogue, and spiritual formation. He has given invited talks, workshops, and concerts at a wide range of institutions in the US and UK, including Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, Harvard, Christ Church Cathedral (Oxford), and the national conference of the International Council of Christians and Jews, among many others.
He is the founder of Deus Ex Musica, an international ecumenical organization that promotes the creation of new sacred music. His projects have been featured in Time Magazine, BBC4 Radio, and the Boston Globe, and his writing has appeared in academic publications as well as The Christian Century, and Sojourners, and his Patheos column Alleluia! Music and the Christian Life.
As a composer, his music has been performed by over 100 orchestras in the US and abroad, including the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony, and Atlanta Symphony, as well as by numerous Grammy-winning soloists and ensembles.
In 2024 he was a Visiting Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford, and spent the summer of 2025 as a fellow at the Woolf Institute at the University of Cambridge. A graduate of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, he currently holds the A. Howard Meneely Professorship at historic Wheaton College in Massachusetts.
