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New U2 Album expresses Christian Theology
by Andrew Clark
Posted: Monday, November 29, 2004, 19:26 (GMT)Font Scale:A A A

The new U2 album has been reviewed as lyrically the most “conspicuously Christian record U2 has released” since their 2nd album ‘October’. The latest album was released last week in the UK, and Touchstone Magazine in Chicago recorded that “The band was right to resist” being given a religious label as “no doubt it would have limited their audience and their art at early stages – but it seems time to simply live with the contradictions and let the chips fall where they may.”

Their latest album ‘How to Dismantle an Atom Bomb’ U2 express Christian faith with excerpts from Psalm, and hallelujahs to the Almighty.

The Irish band has been on a promotional tour, and lead singer Bono said, “It feels like there’s a blessing on the band right now. People say their feeling shivers – well, the band is as well. And I don’t know what it is, but it feels like God walking through the room, and it feels like a blessing, and in the end, music is a kind of sacrament; it’s not just about airplay or chart position.”

“It was a temperate yet unapologetic witness, not showy or preachy but unashamed,” reviewed Kenneth Tanner of Touchstone Magazine, who is ordained in the Charismatic Episcopal Church in America “and that spirit continues on Atomic Bomb.”

He continued, “The abandonment of romance for the truer love (of the ‘tougher,’ more resilient yea eternal, variety) is a common theme on Atomic Bomb, and though it might strike contemporary ears as paradoxical and uncool…it seems Bono’s experiences in Africa have taught him to distrust reigning American and European definitions of the beloved.”