Includes bibliographical references, discography (pages 191-192), and indexes.
Contents:
God, friendship, and art -- Ecstatic wonderings and dangerous kicking: imagination and method -- Cockburn's windows: getting a big picture -- Creation dream -- At home in the darkness, but hungry for dawn -- Creation dreams and ecological nightmares -- Into a world of dancers -- Humans -- Broken wheel -- Betrayal and shame -- What do you do with darkness? -- Justice and Jesus -- Waiting for a miracle.
Summary:
"For forty years, singer and songwriter Bruce Cockburn has been writing beautifully evocative music. Bestselling author and respected theologian Brian Walsh has followed Cockburn's work for years and has written and spoken often on his art. In this creative theological and cultural engagement, Walsh reveals the imaginative depth and uncompromising honesty of the artist's Christian spirituality. Cockburn offers hope in the midst of doubt, struggle, failure, and anger; indeed, the sentiment of 'kicking at the darkness' is at the heart of his spirituality. This book engages the rich imagery of Cockburn's lyrics as a catalyst for shaping and igniting a renewed Christian imagination"--Publisher description.
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