Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Thought Question for the Day



I’m at home sick today and spending more time than I ought reading blogs.

Anyway, Darryl Hart had a very penetrating question on his blog today: “Is neo-Calvinism proximately responsible for the triumph of bad taste and poor music in Reformed churches?”

…or, for that matter, in many evangelical churches?

Read the whole thing here.
Posted by at 1:10 PM

1 comments:

Joseph said...

It seems that neo-Calvinism at least provides a theological justification for bad taste and poor music in churches. For example, Perry Noble argues that he "redeemed" ACDC's Highway to Hell (see here). His argument convinced panel around him at least to the degree that they wouldn't label his actions sinful.

There would probably be Perry Nobles of this world with or without the theological cover that neo-Calvinism offers. However, I believe Hart might be onto something at least as far as explaining the permissiveness evangelicals have with guys like Perry Noble.

January 25, 2012 9:45 AM

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