Ideologies Affecting Music and
Musicing-Part 3
The
conservative Christian musician has the tendency to conserve and preserve
established institutions. The thesis
thinker must be careful to keep public worship from being morally damaged or
destroyed. Resist harmful change, not
all change! Resist worldliness and
secularization of Christian music worship, not all change in musical worship
style.
Modernism
is a worldview containing rationalism and humanism that disdained former
orthodox ideologies. For instance,
modern man believes that there are aspects of Christianity that are not true
and that truth and morality are relative.
Now this modern thinking is thought to be old-fashioned since many
postmodernists do not believe that we can “know” truth or reality. Orthodox Christians and modernists “thought
differently” about absolutes and truth.
Postmodernists have taken thought even farther by rejecting absolutes in
music completely. The fine arts are
often a part of the avant-guard. Music
and the fine arts in general often give us insight into where a particular
culture is headed. Veith explains how
modern artists felt about works of art.
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