{"id":11,"date":"2005-11-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2005\/11\/would-beethoven-use-beliefnet.html"},"modified":"2005-11-04T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-04T12:00:00","slug":"would-beethoven-use-beliefnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2005\/11\/would-beethoven-use-beliefnet.html","title":{"rendered":"Would Beethoven Use Beliefnet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/images.beliefnet.com\/imgs\/blogs\/beethoven_051114.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 101px\" src=\"https:\/\/images.beliefnet.com\/imgs\/blogs\/beethoven_051114.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Check out NPR&#8217;s fascinating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=4975606\" target=\"_new\">&#8220;Talk of the Nation&#8221; interview<\/a> with Edmund Morris regarding his new book &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060759747\/beliefnet\" target=\"_new\">Beethoven, The Universal Composer<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a response to a call-in question about Beethoven&#8217;s spiritual development, Morris reveals that while the great composer was schooled in Roman Catholic liturgy and wrote music as a young person for the church, he became a <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/pantheism\/\" target=\"_new\">pantheist<\/a> (someone who sees everything as divine and draws inspiration from nature). 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