My Only Comfort: Death, Deliverance, and Discipleship in the by Calvin R. Stapert

By Calvin R. Stapert

In the historical past of Western tune, J. S. Bach is unsurpassed in mastery of approach and profundity of suggestion. He was once additionally a religious Lutheran with a huge wisdom of Scripture and theology. Given Bach's mixture of musical prowess, own devotion, and theological intensity, it isn't mind-blowing that his song stands unexcelled between inventive expressions of the Christian religion. With the passage of time, in spite of the fact that, the various crucial keys to realizing Bach's track were misplaced. My in simple terms Comfort uniquely reconnects sleek listeners with Bach's song, allowing them to hear Bach with renewed realizing and appreciation.

After an creation to Bach, his theological wisdom, his musical language, and a few of the genres of sacred song in his output, Calvin Stapert leads readers via particular works by means of Bach that specific, interpret, and vivify the various imperative doctrines of the Christian religion. for every paintings mentioned, Stapert offers appropriate quotations from the Heidelberg Catechism (a novel and provocative method of the examine of Bach), a literal translation of the textual content set beside the German unique, and textual and musical remark intended to give a contribution to a extra perceptive and devotional hearing the work.

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