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Joshua Banner

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The Liturgical Question of Metallica: A Response to Jason Lief’s “Leave Metallica Alone!”

APRIL 2012: ESSAY by Joshua Banner Jason Lief's "Leave Metallica Alone! Why Metallica Coming to Church Is a Bad Idea," from the February 2012 issue of Perspectives, is a refreshing commentary on the evangelical compulsion to co-opt and baptize popular culture. Lief, a professor of religion and a fan of heavy metal music, writes a brief defense of why he is not interested in reading John Van Sloten's Bringing Metallica to Church: Searching for the Everywhere God in Everything. On…
Joshua Banner
April 1, 2012
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What Language Shall I Borrow?

Whether your bent is toward biblical, historical, systematic, or narrative theologies, it is fair to say that each contributes something valuable to the greater good of the theological enterprise. Within this greater conversation, at least from my view, liturgical theology is the most underappreciated. I was taught early on in my studies that doxology should be closely related to theology, that worship and study of God work best together. If our thoughts about God are not intertwined with our worship…
Joshua Banner
June 1, 2010