Musical affects and the life of faith: Some reflections on the religious potency of music

by: Mark Wynn

Faith and Philosophy, Vol. 21, No. 1. (January 2004), pp. 25-44.

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The paper argues that the religious suggestiveness of music can be illuminated by reference to a number of themes drawn from contemporary philosophy of music, in particular the idea that the affective states expressed in music lack material objects, are often grasped “sympathetically,” may escape verbalisation, and lack action-guiding content. Together these themes suggest that music may express, and enable its hearers to take on, an affectively laden “world-view.” The paper explores the thought that such “attitudes” may be religiously important not only in setting the affective tone of our relationshiop to the world, but also in relationship to God.

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