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Walk On: The Spiritual Journey of U2. By Steve Stockman. Lake Mary, Fla.: Relevant Books, 2001. ii + 197 pp. $13.99 (paper).
Most readers of the Anglican Theological Review are probably more conversant with postmodern philosophy or post-liberal theology than they are with post-punk music. And that's probably for the best. Nevertheless, the pulse of our society is better found in the latter (along with other expressions of popular culture such as film and television), and it behooves us occasionally to check our society's pulse.
For those oblivious to such ephemera, U2 is a rock band from Dublin, Ireland that released its first album in 1980 and whose four members are now in their early forties. Twenty-two years after their debut, U2 is an anomaly almost without precedent in rock music: a commercially successful, perennially popular, socially active, creatively vibrant, spiritually attuned, critically acclaimed rock band that has maintained its original membership while arguably compromising neither its artistic vision nor its moral integrity. They...