The Soul of Hip Hop
Rims, Timbs and a Cultural Theology
InterVarsity Press · Print & ebook · July 23, 2010
What is Hip Hop?
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- Who it’s for
- Daniel White Hodge traces hip-hop’s theological center toward the cross and Jesus’s truth.
- Themes
- Hip-hop theology, Hip-hop and Christianity, Critique of the status quo
- Genres
- Theology, Rap & Hip Hop, Liberation Theology
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What is Hip Hop? Hip hop speaks in a voice that is sometimes gruff, sometimes enraged, sometimes despairing, sometimes hopeful. Hip hop is the voice of forgotten streets laying claim to the high life of rims and timbs and threads and bling. Hip hop speaks in the muddled language of would-be prophets--mocking the architects of the status quo and stumbling in the dark toward a blurred vision of a world made right. What is hip hop?
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It's a cultural movement with a traceable theological center. Daniel White Hodge follows the tracks of hip-hop theology and offers a path from its center to the cross, where Jesus speaks truth.
Hip-Hop Theology
Daniel White Hodge traces hip-hop’s theological center toward the cross and Jesus’s truth.
Come here for
- Hip-hop’s critique of the status quo
- A theological reading of hip-hop’s voice
Expect
- Hip-hop as a cultural movement
- A path from hip-hop theology to Christian theology
Where it sits
| Liberation Theology | 44% |
|---|---|
| Theology | 32% |
| Rap & Hip Hop | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Rap & Hip Hop
- Christian History
- The Christian Soul
- Authors
- Daniel White Hodge
- Publisher
- InterVarsity Press
- Published
- July 23, 2010
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Hip-hop theology · Hip-hop and Christianity · Critique of the status quo
- Reading lane
- Rap & Hip Hop