#29 Josh Bauder: How to Recover a Reformed Theology of Beauty, Music in the Church as Symptomatic of Christian Culture, Church Architecture as a Conduit to Worship

Dr. Josh Bauder is a Minneapolis-based composer, arranger, typesetter, and professor. His choral music has been performed by church, university, and community choirs across the United States and abroad. Josh holds a B.A. in music and philosophy from the University of St. Thomas, and he earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in music composition from the University of Minnesota. Several of Josh's sacred choral octavos are published by the Fred Bock Company, and he self-publishes choral/ orchestral and instrumental works. In his free time Josh pursues interests in theology, history, aesthetics, residential architecture, and fiction. He lives in Saint Michael, Minnesota.

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