With God on Our Side: Towards a Transformational Theology of by Steven Félix-Jäger

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By Steven Félix-Jäger

Rock and roll is greater than simply track. Rock is a tradition and an ideology, which contains its personal ethos. it's forcefully countercultural and exists as a bane within the sight of dominant Western tradition. As rock engages and reviews tradition, it normally encounters problems with which means which are existential and theological. A transformational theology of rock starts with these existential and theological matters raised via and inside of rock track. With God On Our Side makes an attempt to reply to those queries in a fashion that's devoted to the paintings of the dominion of God in the world through mining our lengthy theological culture and seeing what cohesive responses will be made to the problems raised via rock song. At its top, rock recognizes there's something flawed with the realm, increases know-how of marginalized voices, and gives another mode of life inside our current fact. via teasing out the theological concerns present in rock track, this booklet synthesizes the findings to create a particular cultural theology that's delicate to the plight of the marginalized within the West. during this means, the publication bargains a manner ahead in the direction of a transformational theology of rock and roll.

"Too many theology of tradition authors pillage cultural artifacts for the aim of utilizing them as cardboard props to be used in carrier in their e-book subject. during this e-book, Felix-Jager takes cultural artifacts heavily as complicated goods of deep which means that not just avail themselves to the information we undertaking onto them but additionally train us issues during the principles they venture onto us. And a e-book that has such artistic insights makes this a beautiful enjoyable read."
--Brent Everett Dickinson, Azusa Pacific University

"Too frequently rock tune is written off through the devoted as 'the devil's music,' risky except transfigured by means of the formulaic technique of the modern Christian song undefined. but as Felix-Jager shows, rock track isn't really something, yet internally assorted, representing many sub-genres of music. Further, those sub-genres are religiously advanced, attractive quite a lot of easy human or even explicitly non secular issues. This detailed and compelling publication is cognizant of the variety and spiritual complexity of rock, and rewards the reader with a wealthy and unique 'transformational theology of rock' when it comes to reaction. hugely recommended."
--Christian Scharen, Auburn Theological Seminary

"There is a awesome imbalance among the prominence of rock tune in our tradition at huge, and its relative absence from theological discussions of artwork and tradition. during this lucid research, Steven Felix-Jager plays a beneficial provider via inviting the church to stick with his lead in bringing theologians like Barth, Hauerwas, and Gutierrez into dialog with artists like August Burns pink, Relient ok, and Skillet."
--Steven R. Guthrie, Belmont University

Steven Felix-Jager (PhD, college of Wales/Glyndŵr college) teaches classes in theology, philosophy, and arts at Southeastern collage and Polk nation university as an accessory professor, and teaches highschool artwork. he's the writer of Pentecostal Aesthetics (2015) and of various scholarly magazine articles approximately paintings, aesthetics, and theology.

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