Just Arrived from Stephen Nichols
Getting the Blues: What Blues Music Teaches Us about Suffering and Salvation
by Stephen Nichols
Brazos Press
Paperback, 192 pages
“In the current cultural climate, surrounded by so much sentimentality, we need blues music and its Christian resonances as perhaps never before. Nichols’s book should go a long way to putting this art form back on the theological agenda.”
- Jeremy Begbie, Duke University
“Too often the Blues is put in opposition to Spirituals. But when the church’s songs stray too far from the cries of a broken humanity, they lose their truth, depth, and power. In Getting the Blues, Stephen Nichols compellingly shows how the minor key of the blues resonates with the minor keys in scripture and theology. By attending closely to these ‘blue notes’ Nichols writes truthfully and wisely about God’s ways with wayward children–not only famous ones like Muddy Waters and Ma Rainey, but also the likes of you and me.”
- Christian Scharen, Luther Seminary; author of One Step Closer: Why U2 Matters to Those Seeking God
Stephen J. Nichols (PhD, Westminster Theological Seminary) is research professor of Christianity and culture at Lancaster Bible College. He is the author of several books, including Jesus Made in America: A Cultural History from the Puritans to the Passion of the Christ and The Reformation: How a Monk and a Mallet Changed the World. Nichols lives with his wife and children in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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