While John Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen and other musicians were trying to win hearts and minds for Anybody but Bush back in ’04, it seems the music of one Johan Sebastian Bach has people leaning towards another non-politically affiliated individual. Fellow Theo-cat, Foxfier aka Precentor of Measurements, has linked to an interesting piece documenting a seemingly unlikely triad of Bach’s music, Asians and Christianity. Click here.
We liked this quote from the original story…..,
“The reason why Bach’s most abstract works guide some Asian people to Christ is because his music reflects the perfect beauty of created order to which the Japanese mind is particularly receptive,” suggested Charles Ford, a mathematics professor at the University of St. Louis. “Bach has the same effect on me, a Western scientist…”
…… because we’ve always wondered why mankind's seeking of God and his seeking of reason and rationality had to be mutually exclusive endeavors.
We liked this quote from the original story…..,
“The reason why Bach’s most abstract works guide some Asian people to Christ is because his music reflects the perfect beauty of created order to which the Japanese mind is particularly receptive,” suggested Charles Ford, a mathematics professor at the University of St. Louis. “Bach has the same effect on me, a Western scientist…”
…… because we’ve always wondered why mankind's seeking of God and his seeking of reason and rationality had to be mutually exclusive endeavors.
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*curtsey* Thank you kindly.
And don't worry on the HTML skills-- I just use the automatic things. *Grin*
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