TY - JOUR AU - Perez, Jahdiel N PY - 2016/04/24 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Music-Makers and Reformed Theology JF - Societas Dei: Jurnal Agama dan Masyarakat JA - JSD VL - 3 IS - 1 SE - Artikel DO - 10.33550/sd.v3i1.31 UR - https://societasdei.rcrs.org/index.php/SD/article/view/31 SP - 77 AB - <strong>ABSTRACT: </strong><span>If Reformed theology hopes to impact contemporary and future societies </span><em>as much as possible</em><span> it will have to harness the unique power of music to influence the world beyond the walls of the Church. In this essay, I want to draw attention to the ways in which Christianity, in general, and Reformed theology, in particular, are criticized through music and what we can do to respond. I will introduce an approach to Christian apologetics, which I call </span><em>sonic-apologetics</em><span> that enables our music-makers to defend the faith musically. In the first part of this paper, I will discuss five problems to which sonic-apologetics is an answer. This will anchor the second part of this essay, in which I construct sonic-apologetics from three notions: (1) methodological emphasis on effects, (2) genres of expression, and (3) the distinction between linear and angled apologetic responses. In the final part of this essay, I present two different study cases of sonic-apologetics. Nothing about what I will discuss regarding sonic-apologetics changing existing liturgical norms of Christian churches, especially Reformed ones. It does, however, call for those producing and performing music in these churches to direct their music-making interests and abilities toward the world outside the church walls. </span><strong>KEYWORDS: </strong><em>reformed theology, music, sonic-apologetics.</em> ER -