With God on Our Side: Towards a Transformational Theology of Rock and Roll

With God on Our Side: Towards a Transformational Theology of Rock and Roll
ISBN-10
1498231802
ISBN-13
9781498231800
Series
With God on Our Side
Category
Religion
Pages
192
Language
English
Published
2017-01-11
Publisher
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Author
Steven Felix-Jager

Description

Rock and roll is more than just music. Rock is a culture and an ideology, which carries its own ethos. It is forcefully countercultural and exists as a bane in the sight of dominant Western culture. As rock engages and critiques culture, it invariably encounters issues of meaning that are existential and theological. A transformational theology of rock begins with those existential and theological issues raised by and within rock music. With God On Our Side attempts to respond to these queries in a way that is faithful to the work of the kingdom of God on earth by mining our long theological tradition and seeing what cohesive responses can be made to the issues raised by rock music. At its best, rock acknowledges there is something wrong with the world, raises awareness of marginalized voices, and offers an alternative mode of existence within our present reality. By teasing out the theological issues found in rock music, this book synthesizes the findings to create a distinctive cultural theology that is sensitive to the plight of the marginalized in the West. In this way, the book offers a way forward towards a transformational theology of rock and roll.

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