Creating Culture
The panel continues to examine the theological foundations for engaging culture.
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[...] Reformed Forum – Reformed Theology Podcasts, Videos, Blogs and More – » Blog Archive »…Another video from the Reformed Forum on culture. There are some helpful things here, but I do think they have a fundamental misunderstanding of what culture is. There is a difference between redeeming culture (which I’m all for) and redeeming particular cultural expressions. Some expressions cannot be redeemed. [...]
I am enjoying your discussions regarding how and if Christians can engage in culture.
The topic you touched on relative to whether certain kinds of music – the chords/notes, not the lyrics – have any kind of moral implications reminded me of an episode of This American Life a couple of years back (http://thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/110/Mapping – see the “Hearing” section, about 12 minutes in) in which part of the discussion related to how particular notes and combinations of notes evoke particular moods. They noted that the Church in the Middle Ages even assigned different meanings to certain note combinations. The augmented 4th, a musical interval, for example, was known as the “diabolus in musica,” “the devil in the music.”