Aesthetics in A
Christian’s Music Paradigm—part 4
What
really matters about the use or disuse of a style of music when one is
worshiping a high and holy triune God is much more complicated than mere
musical or aesthetic quality—although musical and aesthetic quality does
matter. What really matters is what a
particular style of music communicates to the musicer and the listener and what
that communication has the potential to do to a person mentally and
spiritually.
A piece of music that is not full of aesthetic
meaning is not necessarily harmful to the musicer and the listener. So, whether
or not the formal properties of the music are arranged in such a way to make
that music aesthetically valuable is not reason enough to exclude a style of
music as a whole or as a single musical composition from the life of a
Christian.
Thought for the Day
The Bible in Basic English translates 2Corinthians
“7:11 For you see what care was produced in you by this very sorrow of yours
before God, what clearing of yourselves, what wrath against sin, what fear,
what desire, what serious purpose, what punishment. In everything you have made
it clear that you are free from sin in this business.” Although this scripture is not addressing music
directly, the principle stated in this verse extends to the music and musicing
of a musician who is a born again Christian.
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