I gave it the hour to listen, despite my hesitations, and I believe anyone who takes in the music along with the fascinating analysis will be richly rewarded.
In the golden calf selection I indeed heard the brutality, yes, the consequence of our seeking anything other than a God-ordered liberty. There was maybe also a hint in the frayed t…
I gave it the hour to listen, despite my hesitations, and I believe anyone who takes in the music along with the fascinating analysis will be richly rewarded.
In the golden calf selection I indeed heard the brutality, yes, the consequence of our seeking anything other than a God-ordered liberty. There was maybe also a hint in the frayed tonality, of the instruments yielding animalistic sounds. And perhaps shrill mockery.
Your words trace, very accessibly, with respect to music and culture, how the utter abandonment of final and formal causality has led to all manner of extremes in anthropology. Isn’t that at the root of today’s moral and cultural crises? So now I’m wondering if you’ve made anywhere, or would consider making, a more sustained apologia for moderate realism, and a Thomistic anthropology…with reference to human pursuits—including music. You know, in order to more fully complement your extensive works on the Mass.
It is true, we need the Mass first and foremost. But I think we’ve sadly already lost the culture on anthropology. That is unfolding in some very dark ways now in Europe, and the US isn’t far behind. You are helping readers not to lose our minds as well, in posts like this one at Tradition and Sanity. Just wondering, love the piece, looking forward to more.
I gave it the hour to listen, despite my hesitations, and I believe anyone who takes in the music along with the fascinating analysis will be richly rewarded.
In the golden calf selection I indeed heard the brutality, yes, the consequence of our seeking anything other than a God-ordered liberty. There was maybe also a hint in the frayed tonality, of the instruments yielding animalistic sounds. And perhaps shrill mockery.
Your words trace, very accessibly, with respect to music and culture, how the utter abandonment of final and formal causality has led to all manner of extremes in anthropology. Isn’t that at the root of today’s moral and cultural crises? So now I’m wondering if you’ve made anywhere, or would consider making, a more sustained apologia for moderate realism, and a Thomistic anthropology…with reference to human pursuits—including music. You know, in order to more fully complement your extensive works on the Mass.
It is true, we need the Mass first and foremost. But I think we’ve sadly already lost the culture on anthropology. That is unfolding in some very dark ways now in Europe, and the US isn’t far behind. You are helping readers not to lose our minds as well, in posts like this one at Tradition and Sanity. Just wondering, love the piece, looking forward to more.
Where there’s tonality, there’s hope!
Others have done the defense of Thomistic anthropology and moderate realism better than I could: Garrigou-Lagrange, Wilhelmsen, Pieper...
However, you might enjoy my book on St Thomas's doctrine of love, which happens to be on sale at Amazon at the moment:
https://www.amazon.com/Ecstasy-Love-Thought-Thomas-Aquinas/dp/1645851044