“. . . zeal for souls goes with debased musical taste.”
By Bruce Keisling January 17, 2008
That quote will surely get some attention. I thought I might just as well get everyone into a fevered pitch over music before Sunday’s XM class on God and Music. In all fairness, we are not going to talk about church music. I know that will disappoint some of you. We are going to try to talk about music in general, a theology of music, and then the classic Francis Schaeffer question “How shall we then live?”. There will be implications about church music, but that won’t be our primary objective.
In preparation for Sunday, I’m rereading a book by Erik Routley entitled Church Music and Theology. The first time I read the quote (post’s title) I found it humorous. While Routley makes some valid points about using music to manipulate, etc., he had his own issues too.