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Too Sick to Pray

A Theology of Outlaw Country
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Too Sick To Pray: A Theology of Outlaw Country explores the imaginative world that comes to form in Outlaw Country--that musical expression of Nashville rebels in the 1970's. Far from being comprised of uneducated hillbillies singing recycled gospel songs, Outlaw Country is filled with Oxford scholars, literary geniuses, and poets in the making. The genre not only redefined the music industry it broke open the mold for political, social, economic, and, most importantly, theological topics in country music. C. M. Howell shows that the theological dimension of Outlaw Country can in no way be drawn in a straight line to more conventional, organized, or academic sense of Christian theology. Rather, Too Sick to Pray argues that the Outlaws are involved in a mode of theological play. Play, here, gathers three key functions: it is a form of aesthetic judgement, therein alleviating Outlaw Country from the burdens placed on more exacting forms of theology; it is a mode of phenomenological presence, signaling that Outlaw Country is full of aesthetic tension and hermeneutical possibilities; and it is a form of disinhibited productivity, a type of action which cannot be reduced to the aims of the agent, but one in which the agent discovers their own sense of identity.
C.M. Howell is a research assistant for the Widening Horizons in Continental Philosophy project at the University of St Andrews. Prior to his academic pursuit, he worked as a professional musician. He is the author of the forthcoming monograph Beauty in the Absence of God: The Theological Aesthetics of Eberhard Juengel (Mohr Siebeck).
Introduction The Ghost of Hank 1. Outlaw Theology God's Dirty Joke 2. Jesus Was a Capricorn Kris Kristofferson 3. spirit Willie Nelson 4. Revelation Waylon Jennings 5. An Elegy of Empty Hearts Townes van Zandt 6. Salvation Billy Joe Shaver 7. New Forms of Outlaw Country Roger Allen Wade & Cecil Allen Moore Conclusion Theology on A Sunday Morning Coming Down
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