The Sense of an Ending

[mwesterholm]

Begbie begins at 2:39. You can skip the intro.

[calebjed]

Listen to the whole thing. The best parts are at the end.

[Sojourneer]

Came across this in essay form in A Place For Truth, IVPress, ed. Dallas Willard

[colingodbout63]

Begbie describes the belief in a steady decline of music as a crass and naiive oversimplification. This belief is held by Pope Benedict, Karl Barth, George Steiner, Heinrich Schenker, Oswald Spengler, Northrop Frye, to name a few.