Developing a Music Philosophy in Christian Perspective—part 4

Developing a Music Philosophy in Christian Perspective—part 4

            It is no surprise to me that secular music philosophers almost always exclude what the Bible teaches as viable information for a young musician to use in building a music philosophy.  Music philosophers are now acknowledging that postmodernism is no longer in vogue as a thought basis for building a philosophy.  I agree that postmodernism is “dead” and that millennials are looking beyond postmodernism for philosophical basis.  I call this new look at philosophy post postmodernism. 

            An understanding of postmodernism is important because this philosophical viewpoint has not considered what the Bible teaches about the nature and value music and musicing in the process of establishing a philosophical truth basis.  Remember that modernists considered that the Bible contains both truth and error so their truth basis was flawed.  Post postmodernism is experiencing further philosophical mutations in epistemology.  Therefore, it is not completely clear what truth basis, if any, they will espouse.  Since millennials are growing up with parents who do not consider Bible truths as the supreme authority, or to have any authority over their truth basis, these young musicians will most likely not be consider what the Bible teaches as a part of the establishment of this new epistemology.