“Just as truly great music requires no external justification, Christian theology needs no apology. As no external proof or argument is necessary to justify the performance of Mozart, no intermediary or school of interpretation is necessary to appreciate the integrity and compelling vision of the theology of Karl Barth...One of the most significant things that Barth finds in Mozart, is the presence of a real dialectic; a genuine and focused movement in which both darkness and light, sadness and joy, death and life, are all intensely present. Mozart belongs to theology because in a quite remarkable way his music offers us an allusive and boundless witness to the goodness and gift of time, limit, passion and freedom. In short, Mozart is a secular parable of the goodness of creaturely life.”

Mark Husbands, “Barth on Mozart:  An Allusive and Boundless Witness” January 27, 2006.