Posts by Gerald Priest
Is Fundamentalism a Cultural Phenomenon?
Gerald L. Priest FrontLine • May/June 2009 One criticism leveled against Fundamentalists is their refusal to engage the culture. Sociologist Alan Wolfe writes, “When believers refuse to engage the culture, their opponents dismiss them as fanatics, frustrated people rendered insecure by the dilemmas and opportunities of modernity.”1 Implicit in this complaint is resentment toward Fundamentalists…
Read MoreAre Baptists Protestants?
Gerald L. Priest The answer to that question is a simple yes and no. Some Baptists have suggested that, since their spiritual fathers were not a part of the mainline branches of the Protestant Reformation and therefore did not separate from the Roman Catholic Church as these branches did, they cannot be Protestants. But that…
Read MoreValues and Music: A Theological Perspective (Part 5)
Gerald Priest, Ph.D. This is the fifth part of five.. Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 Part 1 points out that the first and most important criteria in making musical choices is theological: does my music please God? Part 2 argues that music is moral since it originated in God…
Read MoreValues and Music: A Theological Perspective (Part 4)
Gerald Priest, Ph.D. This is the fourth part of five. Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 Part 1 points out that the first and most important criteria in making musical choices is theological: does my music please God? Part 2 argues that music is moral since it originated in God and thus its…
Read MoreValues and Music: A Theological Perspective (Part 3)
Gerald Priest, Ph.D. This is the third part of five. Part 1 • Part 2 In Part 1, Dr. Priest points out that the first and most important criteria in making musical choices is theological: does my music please God? In Part 2, Dr. Priest argues that music is moral since it originated in God…
Read MoreValues and Music: A Theological Perspective (Part 2)
Gerald Priest, Ph.D. This is the second part of five. Part 1 can be found here. In Part 1, Dr. Priest points out that the first and most important criteria in making musical choices is theological: does my music please God? To begin, music is not amoral; apart from any lyrics, music conveys a message.…
Read MoreValues and Music: A Theological Perspective (Part 1)
Gerald Priest, Ph.D. This article is part of a larger article by Dr. Priest, divided into five parts. I want to express briefly my own theology of music and the values related to it. I am not a musician, but then most Christians are not. But we are musical, and therefore should have a Christian…
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