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Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music is unavailable, but you can change that!

From an iPod to a car radio, from movie soundtracks to Muzak at the shopping mall, from singing in the shower to the concert arena, music is an unavoidable part of our lives. Not only is music ubiquitous, it is powerful: creating moods, evoking memories and images, uniting people, and providing an outlet of expression for even the most tone deaf among us. Besides its prominent position in...

A Christian approaching the Bible with strong musical interests may well be disappointed. Scripture provides little direct help in answering the kinds of questions that might readily be asked: What place should music have in human life? How do we go about evaluating different pieces of music? What makes good music? It certainly does not supply anything like a “theology of music.” No verses or passages address at any great length how music is to be viewed in relation
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