Good and Fearless
Musicians-part1
The
following statements were taken from Oswald chamber’s diary, “… The kingdom of
aesthetics lies in groveling quagmire, half fine, half impure; there is a
crying need for a fearless preacher of Christ in the midst of that kingdom, for
a fearless writer, writing with the blood of Christ, proclaiming His claims in
the midst of that kingdom, for a fearless lecturer above pandering to popular
taste, to warn and exhort that all the kingdoms of this world are to become Christ’s
– that artists, poets and musicians be good and fearless
Christians.” I am not sure but I suppose that these
statements were written sometime in 1891 or 1892 when he was preparing to
attend an arts college.
If
the arts and the study of aesthetics were “in groveling quagmire” before 1900,
I wonder what Chambers would write about them in 2015? I thought it quite unique that his evaluation
of the “kingdom of aesthetics” came to the conclusion that the major problem
with aesthetics was caused by those who were involved in the arts who were
“pandering to popular taste”. This
scenario sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
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