Thursday, January 11, 2007

Maybe this is why the devil has all the good music

Here's an interesting essay from Mike Mitchell entitled, "Worldly Music and Christian Direction". In it he says,
C.S. Lewis said the central story of his life was to find the source of an acute experience he referred to as “joy.” What he describes is not just the common meaning of the word, but a type of ravenous longing, a sweet, piercing pang. It is an experience that entails “an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction,” usually brought about by aesthetic experience. Lewis proposed that this longing is a foretaste or scent of Heaven, as if aesthetics are the frequency through which glimpses of the reality of God are transmitted.

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