Book Review
Music Philosophy
in Christian Perspective
by Garen L. Wolf considers how to determine what music is acceptable to use in
worshiping God. Since God created all things, including the formal properties
of music (the nuts and bolts of music that make it what it is capable of
being), what a musician does with these properties of music makes him
responsible to the Creator. This source
is a Christian response to many of the major topics that secular music
philosophers are currently considering.
The author studies the
original meanings of ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek musical terms to
address the modern-day evangelical church music. He examines artistic underpinnings to modern
music movements and consider multiple hot topics: ·Is all music equal? ·Does
being “seeker sensitive” trump all other considerations? ·Does God have an
opinion on what music is used to worship Him? ·Is it enough for music to be
beautiful? ·What makes for acceptable and unacceptable worship music? ·Is all
modern music to be rejected, or endorsed? ·What is the proper priority for
hymns, gospel songs, praise choruses and other sacred music? This is not a
simple judgment of what is right or wrong, but rather a finely-honed tool to
assess how one chooses music, and why.
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