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God Gave Rock and Roll to You:
A History of Contemporary Christian Music
Leah Payne
Hardback: Oxford UP, 2024
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“Readers of Payne’s work are encouraged to ask difficult questions about the effects of this intertwining of art, commerce, and politics on the church, questions that become all the more urgent when we consider how much of the contemporary Christian music currently being produced is for the purposes of congregational worship. These songs are not just meant for performance, but are designed to shape the common life of church communities as they gather. For those of us who care about the church, and who also believe that God has gifted artists to proclaim the Kingdom of God in all its variety and manifold glory, Payne’s book will provoke important questions about whether we have used these gifts faithfully, and how, rather than being assimilated to or swallowed up by larger culture industries, we might encourage art that challenges God’s people to embrace and embody the Kingdom in ways that aren’t necessarily safe.”
– Todd Edmondson,
from our review
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