With God on Our Side
eBook - ePub

With God on Our Side

Towards a Transformational Theology of Rock and Roll

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

With God on Our Side

Towards a Transformational Theology of Rock and Roll

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction: Setting the Stage
  4. Chapter 1: Rock and the Kingdom of God
  5. Chapter 2: Upon This (Christian) Rock
  6. Chapter 3: The Wisdom of Folk Rock
  7. Chapter 4: The Prophetic Screams of Heavy Metal
  8. Chapter 5: Nationalism and Southern Rock
  9. Chapter 6: Punk Rock Liberation
  10. Chapter 7: Grunge Rock and the Authentic Self
  11. Chapter 8: The Otherness of Alternative Rock
  12. Conclusion: A Transformational Theology of Rock in Outline
  13. Bibliography