The Gospel According to Bach

Published: September 12, 2007, 1:43 pm

Christian History & Biography magazine has just come out with a beautiful edition (Issue 95, Summer 2007) which focuses on the music of J.S. Bach. The entire magazine is a testament to why the "old church music" is still the best church music because of its commitment to proclaiming the timeless truths of God's Word in music that stirs and elevates the soul. Calvin Stapert writes this about Bach, "a man whose staunch Lutheran faith informed his life, his career, and his view of music": He believed that music was a "refreshment of spirit," as some of the title pages of his works stated. He believed that music was a powerful tool for the proclamation of the gospel, as his cantatas, Passions, organ chorales, and other compositions clearly show. And ultimately, he believed that music brought glory to God, as the initials SDG (Soli Deo Gloria, "To God alone be glory") at the end of most of his scores bear witness. Every article in the

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