Someone emailed me recently asking for a list of articles that refuted musical relativism. Here is my reply:
Really, I think the issue comes down to whether there is any universal meaning at all in music and whether any of that meaning is inappropriate for Christians. Of course, my two books both deal with [...]
Continue Reading →In considering how the imagination of a child is shaped, we have discussed parental piety, parental roles in the home, routines, rituals, family worship, corporate worship, music, poetry, literature, the plastic arts, the Christian tradition, and language itself. When considered together, shaping the imagination is not an activity here or there, but the bulk of [...]
Continue Reading →When Martin Luther (1483–1546) begins making reforms in the church, one of the most significant issues he faces is the relationship between the civil and ecclesiastical authorities. Thus, Luther articulates an understanding of antithesis and commonality that in many ways reflects what came before him but in such a way that he is often credited [...]
Continue Reading →“In the United States at this time Liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition,” Lionel Trilling famously declared in 1950. There was truth in what Trilling said, but not the whole truth. Three years later a young professor from Michigan State University conceded, “For a century and a half, conservatives [...]
Continue Reading →The first of Kuyper’s direct followers to explicitly transition away from the Reformed doctrine of two kingdoms was Herman Dooyeweerd (1894-1977). Building on Kuyper’s ambiguity, and parallel to Barth’s own views, Dooyeweerd further develops the idea of worldview as the center of antithesis Continue Reading →
To understand reality, a child must think. Thinking that brings understanding is not the thinking that a cow does when it notices a car passing its pasture. It is the kind of thinking about ideas. To think about ideas, a child must know language. Language is the technology of thought.
Language, as we are using it [...]
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