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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 →“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 →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 [...]
Continue Reading →I believe that the first three chapters of 1 Corinthians ought to guide our thinking concerning the relationship of our efforts to minister the grace of Jesus Christ and so-called cultural relevance. This series has been slowly working through those chapters, seeking to understand the words of [...]
Continue Reading →No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. I mean this as a principle of æsthetic, not merely historical, [...]
Continue Reading →Non-literary and non-musical arts powerfully shape the imagination. Since the media triumph of television and film, these arts have taken a back seat. Only art aficionados seem to go to galleries anymore, and the popular use of this kind of imaginative work has become an almost exclusively decorative or utilitarian one. Regardless, such works [...]
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