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Donn's Books Score Big at
2011 Global eBook Awards
Instrumental Influences: Reflections on
the Classical Guitar from the
Instrument's Most Influential Performers
and Pedagogues is the RUNNER-UP of the
2011 Global eBook Award for Performing
Arts...
Donn's Classical
Guitar CD Projects
Donn is in the GHM studios working on his
long-awaited release of For HYMN, his CD of
classical guitar arrangements of sacred music,
traditional hymns, and inspired classical
music. The CD
will include works
by Bach, Mozart,
S.L. Weiss, Adrian
Leroy, Frescobaldi,
Telemann, and
many others as well
as original pieces
by Donn...
music. The CD
will include works
by Bach, Mozart,
S.L. Weiss, Adrian
Leroy, Frescobaldi,
Telemann, and
many others as well
as original pieces
by Donn...
It's All About HYMN: Essays on
Reclaiming Sacred Music for Worship is
the WINNER of the 2011 Global eBook
Award for Christian Non-Fiction....
Donn's "Musica Maestoso"
Sacred Music Blog
Visit Donn's blog, Musica Maestoso:
Proclaiming Majestic Music for Christian
Worship to read his take on issues
influencing music for Christian worship.
CAUTION: Your assumptions about
music for worship may be challenged!...
New Book Coming in 2012 from Donn LeVie Jr.
DISPUTABLE MATTERS: Balancing Creative Expression and Artistic Restraint in Christian Worship
Note: Donn will be releasing the chapters from Disputable Matters on his Musica Maestoso blog beginning summer of 2012. The book will be released in eBook format only. Autographed hard copies will be available through special order. Details will be forthcoming.
From the time of the early Christian church through the Reformation and up to the present day the church has been concerned with the appropriate use of artistic expression in the sanctified halls; in particular, music, but as of late dance and drama. The church has debated —often with significant tension—the many manners by which God reveals himself to us: through verbal, intellectual rationalization of Scripture, transcendent knowledge, and by way of non-verbal, even spontaneous avenues such as some forms of artistic expression.
Some of these artistic expressions have no Scriptural prescription for their inclusion in worship, so they are relegated to being "disputable matters" as the apostle Paul called many practices not critical to salvation. But even Paul wrote that some practices are not beneficial and others are not constructive. In Disputable Matters, Donn LeVie Jr. explores these concerns through the filter of Scripture, and raises questions about the force pushing the boundary of disputable matters: the feminization of the Christian church propelled by a new egalitarianism.
DISPUTABLE MATTERS: Balancing Creative Expression and Artistic Restraint in Christian Worship
Note: Donn will be releasing the chapters from Disputable Matters on his Musica Maestoso blog beginning summer of 2012. The book will be released in eBook format only. Autographed hard copies will be available through special order. Details will be forthcoming.
From the time of the early Christian church through the Reformation and up to the present day the church has been concerned with the appropriate use of artistic expression in the sanctified halls; in particular, music, but as of late dance and drama. The church has debated —often with significant tension—the many manners by which God reveals himself to us: through verbal, intellectual rationalization of Scripture, transcendent knowledge, and by way of non-verbal, even spontaneous avenues such as some forms of artistic expression.
Some of these artistic expressions have no Scriptural prescription for their inclusion in worship, so they are relegated to being "disputable matters" as the apostle Paul called many practices not critical to salvation. But even Paul wrote that some practices are not beneficial and others are not constructive. In Disputable Matters, Donn LeVie Jr. explores these concerns through the filter of Scripture, and raises questions about the force pushing the boundary of disputable matters: the feminization of the Christian church propelled by a new egalitarianism.
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