Johann Sebastian Bach

But the point is that you can do all of that without any reference whatever to “the gospels,” to the four books that, along with Acts, precede Paul in the New Testament as we have it. Thus in many classic Christian circles, including the plethora of movements that go broadly under the label “evangelical” (and we should remember that in German the w

par son enivrement et son exubérance, il fallait qu'elle fît contrepoids à son existence calme d'érudit et qu'elle fût un stimulant pour l'arracher à l'esprit positif. Mais maintenant que sa pensée elle-même est déjà un excès et une extatique dépense de sentiment, il a besoin de la musique comme d'une détente, comme d'une sorte de bromure moral, co

Bach’s music was like having needles prick you from the inside.

It is so big that Bonhoeffer is willing to assert that with this “placing in the midst” Jesus becomes the inventor of childhood.