Johnny Cash and the Great American Contradiction: Christianity and the Battle for the Soul of a Nation
- ISBN-10
- 066423657X
- ISBN-13
- 9780664236571
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Westminster John Knox Press
- Author
- Rodney Clapp
Description
Bitter Tears is a feat of empathetic imagination, a masterpiece of storytelling and stark musical artistry. It is Cash at his most brilliant and in crucial ways his most Christian. In the biblical and Augustin- ian tradition, ...
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