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Draft: framework for my lecture on the history of Christian music

by Kurt Knecht | Mar 5, 2012 | christian music, kurt knecht, St. Augustine, Uncategorized

When we talk about the history of Christian music, we are immediately confronted with difficult terminology. What exactly do we mean when we say “Christian music”? Do we mean – in the rather unorthodox parlance of the modern evangelical movement – that there was an F...

Aesthtics: St. Augustine and the beginning of the end of Plato

by Kurt Knecht | Dec 20, 2011 | aesthetics, kurt knecht, St. Augustine, Uncategorized

In De Ordine, St. Augustine seems to be under the full sway of Plotinus when it comes to the idea of artistic creation. He argues that you can get your soul “out of tune” by immoral actions.“For to the soul that diligently considers the nature and the power of...

Aesthetics: Alternative to St. Augustine’s coffee cup theory of art

by Kurt Knecht | Oct 17, 2011 | Blanchot, Heidegger, Iyer, St. Augustine, Uncategorized

My good friend, Brian McMillan passed along a lovely passage today. It is from Lars Iyer’s book The Birth of Philosophy in Poetry: Blanchot, Char, Heraclitus. It’s a nice alternative to the art object as a vehicle for carrying content theory.”As for...

Aesthetics: St. Augustine’s coffee cup

by Kurt Knecht | Oct 11, 2011 | aesthetics, art, coffee, St. Augustine, Uncategorized

St. Augustine’s views of art will take some time to tackle. He was certainly one of the most powerful and influential minds for the shaping of Western thought. In general, he tends to borrow much of his language and starting points from the neo-Platonists and Plotinus...

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