Synopsis: Your Neighbor's Hymnal provides a winsome and thoughtful
exploration of popular music, from rock to hip-hop to metal to
soul, as a vital source contemporary culture continues to go to
learn about faith, hope, and love. Where some Christians have kept
their focus only on a hymnal found in their church or formed by the
genre of Contemporary Christian Music, Keuss argues that your
neighbor's hymnal is filled with great music that God is using and
deserves a deeper listen. Offering forty songs spanning time and
genres, each section includes a number of representative
reflections on the history and artist that created the song,
reflections on its lyrical content, and theological and biblical
connections that will hopefully show some ways in which the song
illustrates how your neighbor is hearing, seeking, and finding
faith, hope, and love through popular music. This book can be
approached in a number of ways. As an introduction to this stream
of popular culture, the overviews and short introductions to each
song provide a glossary useful in courses needing texts in theology
and popular culture. For use with church groups, whether adult
bible studies or youth groups, Your Neighbor's Hymnal provides
points of reference for connecting key aspects of the Christian
faith with illustrations readily available for discussion. For
interested music listeners, the book will provide a means of giving
voice to their own musings on faith. As with faith, good music is
meant to be shared, and Your Neighbor's Hymnal offers a wonderful
opportunity to do both. Endorsements: "How Keuss narrowed down his
'playlist' for this book is beyond me. There are a plethora of
theological themes and 'religious' truths in popular music, and
Keuss' selection is a wide and diverse sampling. It would be easy
to dismiss popular music as vapid and superficial, driven and
shaped by market forces that flatten the existential truths of the
artists into commercial commodities, but Keuss enables us, like a
fine teacher, to see the obvious, the beautiful, the transcendent,
and the transformative in this powerful and omnipresent platform
for giving voice to human desire. Those who have ears to hear
already know this, those who do not could do no better than to
surrender to Keuss' able guidance." -Eric G. Flett author of
Persons, Powers, and Pluralities: Toward a Trinitarian Theology of
Culture "With the mind of a theologian, the heart of the pastor,
and the soul of an artist, nobody reflects more intelligently and
provocatively at the intersection of theology and pop culture then
Jeff Keuss. Your Neighbor's Hymnal shows how this generation does
its God-talk through music and lyrics and passionately calls us to
listen to and participate in their conversation." -Dick Staub
author of About You: Fully Human. Fully Alive. "Keuss works with
popular music from the inside, like someone with the music flowing
through his veins. This book is a fantastic example of how pop
culture can serve as a deep source of theological reflection, which
will enable readers to encounter God, through the music in 'Your
Neighbour's Hymnal.'" -Michael W. DeLashmutt Co-Chair of the
Network for Religion and Popular Culture Author Biography: Jeffrey
F. Keuss is Professor and Associate Dean in the School of Theology
at Seattle Pacific University. He is the author of Freedom of the
Self: Kenosis, Cultural Identity, and Mission at the Crossroads
(Pickwick, 2010), The Sacred and the Profane: Current Demands on
Hermeneutics (2003), and A Poetics of Jesus (2002).
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