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Johnny Cash and the Great American Contradiction: Christianity and the Battle for the Soul of a Nation
by
Rodney Clapp
Holiness and hedonism. Lonesomeness and community. Tradition and progress. Highly regarded commentator on Christianity and popular culture Rodney Clapp argues that these great tensions form the bedrock of American history and our current culture. Utilizing the life and music of Johnny Cash to illustrate these and other American contradictions, he probes these phenomena wit...more
Paperback, 159 pages
Published
March 3rd 2008
by Westminster John Knox Press
(first published February 18th 2008)
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Country singer Johnny Cash is symbolic epitome of US cultural changes in latter part of 20th Century. Although the South lost Civil War militarily it has won culturally. Voting patterns since 1980 are illustrative. From its origins the nation has never been physically communitarian, but that may be changing with new forms of community being formed via internet. Author begins with incisive commentary but fizzles toward end.
Stumbled upon it in the clearance bins. What a find. Feel like someone is on a skilled therapists couch...sometimes its Johnny Cash , sometimes its America, sometimes it's myself. Either way I feel as if all three of us are getting to know ourselves better.
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After reading Clapp's, "Families at the Crossroads" & "Tortured Wonders" I was really looking forward to this one. Some good food for thought, but maybe I was just looking for a little more Johnny Cash.
Some really good insights, but the overarching thesis was confused.
I found this short book to be pretty uneven and many of the connecting lines drawn by Clapp to be tenuous at best, but it was still an interesting read.
Great title, not-so-great book.
Fun, with some good insights into American culture and the Christian church.
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