Aesthetics in A Christian’s Music Paradigm

Aesthetics in A Christian’s Music Paradigm

            The Christian musician must become aware of where the aesthetics of music has been placed in his or her musical paradigm.  There are many areas of music aesthetics that are important for the Christian musician to consider. However, pin pointing where aesthetics is placed in one’s musical paradigm, and ultimately in that person’s music philosophy, is essential to the establishment of what that musician considers the nature, value and meaning of music to actually be.

            It is often difficult to get a church musician to explain his or her specific beliefs about aesthetics in church music, if that musician does not consider this aspect of philosophy to even be important.  In the business of a Christian’s music ministry, a musician must be personally convinced of the importance of aesthetic philosophy before that musician is willing to dialogue about what aspects of aesthetics are or are not congruent with a Bible based music philosophy.  Since a Christian’s musicing is never autonomous, but always subject to the will of God, every Christian musician must seek to find and do God’s will—and that includes music and musicing.