I should have told you, but I thought you had forgotten about the U2 stuff: soon after getting Bittorrent I downloaded 14 U2 albums off the Internet. I've only listened to some of it, but what I've heard is pretty good.
I'm not sure how relevant it will be after all. Apparently most CCM fans don't consider U2 a Christian band. Bono cusses in church. Also the whole aid in Africa thing makes conservative evangelicals nervous. I'm thinking about fleshing out a connection between contemporary Christian music and old school fundamentalism in my thesis.
I'm not sure how this is going to be taken, but I like U2 and I'm a fundamentalist.
But then, one of my pet theories is that fundamentalism needs to be reworked and revised. Unfortunately pop culture has never been able to differentiate between theological fundamentalism and cultural fundamentalism. This would be a helpful distinction, I think.
btw, do you have an earlier entry that sheds more light on your thesis?
My immediate reaction is to wonder what your definition of fundamentalism is. My understanding is that most Christians who consider themselves fundamentalists are likely to find many aspects of U2 antithetical to Christianity. But then "fundamentalism," a designation arising from a set of theological disagreements that are by now a century old or more, is becoming a more and more slippery term. George Marsden defines it as "militant anti-modernism." But how does that fit with fundamentalists who are born and raised in a post-modern society?
The idea of a distinction between culture (which is temporal and changing) and theological truth (typically eternal and unchanging) seems to come up a lot when people attack fundamentalist believers for failing to see the forest for the trees, at least in the stuff I've been reading. Christian and Muslim scholars charge fundamentalist believers with myopically confusing cultural tradition with revelation, whether its the patriarchal structure of family or the Islamic
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Addendum: Thesisgin_and_satoriSeptember 4 2006, 05:59:33 UTC
Oh yeah, and my thesis research proceeded so slowly over the summer that I am only just submitting my prospectus. The argument in a nutshell (as it stands now) goes something like this
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I'm not sure how relevant it will be after all. Apparently most CCM fans don't consider U2 a Christian band. Bono cusses in church. Also the whole aid in Africa thing makes conservative evangelicals nervous. I'm thinking about fleshing out a connection between contemporary Christian music and old school fundamentalism in my thesis.
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But then, one of my pet theories is that fundamentalism needs to be reworked and revised. Unfortunately pop culture has never been able to differentiate between theological fundamentalism and cultural fundamentalism. This would be a helpful distinction, I think.
btw, do you have an earlier entry that sheds more light on your thesis?
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My immediate reaction is to wonder what your definition of fundamentalism is. My understanding is that most Christians who consider themselves fundamentalists are likely to find many aspects of U2 antithetical to Christianity. But then "fundamentalism," a designation arising from a set of theological disagreements that are by now a century old or more, is becoming a more and more slippery term. George Marsden defines it as "militant anti-modernism." But how does that fit with fundamentalists who are born and raised in a post-modern society?
The idea of a distinction between culture (which is temporal and changing) and theological truth (typically eternal and unchanging) seems to come up a lot when people attack fundamentalist believers for failing to see the forest for the trees, at least in the stuff I've been reading. Christian and Muslim scholars charge fundamentalist believers with myopically confusing cultural tradition with revelation, whether its the patriarchal structure of family or the Islamic ( ... )
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