Developing a Music Philosophy in Christian Perspective—part 2

       Developing a Music Philosophy in Christian Perspective—part 2

             So, somewhat reluctantly I began to gather material about music and musicing that considered current concerns of music philosophy.  It wasn’t very long until the outline for the book seemed to fall into place and my excitement with how to deal with these philosophical concerns began to build.  My burden was to consider the various concerns which secular music philosophers were writing about, and discuss them from a Christian perspective.  The reason I decided to discuss these issues and concerns of music philosophy from a Christian perspective was that, are almost universally they are not considered from a “faith basis” and most certainly not from a Bible basis.  Thus philosophical material was gathered that formed my new book Music Philosophy in Christian Perspective which is forthcoming later this year.

            The few Bible quotes or paraphrases given in scattered secular music philosophy books have, most of the time, not been specific enough to make them worth quoting.  Certainly, they have not, for the most part, considered what the Bible teaches about music and musicing to be authoritative truth, or what Francis Schafer has called “true truth” and what I term “true musical truth”.  Almost without exception secular music philosophers in the last 20^th century and now in this century have not considered what the Bible teaches to be an accurate source of information on which one could build a music philosophy. 

            Another concern that I have had for some time is that there is next to nothing published that will assist Bible college music majors and Christian music educators in developing a Bible based music education philosophy.  Christian musicians often not only think different things about music philosophy than secular music philosophers who do not love and serve Our Savior Jesus Christ, but they but also think differently about the nature and value of music education.