All These Things into Position

“Through Radiohead, Saler finds common ground for popular music studies and theology in the worldliness of the marketplace and the precarity of the Anthropocene. All These Things into Position is beautifully crafted and, by embracing contradiction, it enacts the very thing it argues for—incarnate, pain-filled hope.”


—Jeffers Engelhardt, Associate Professor, Department of Music, Amherst College





“Rob Saler is out to change theology’s soundtrack. In this tour-de-force interdisciplinary exchange, he demonstrates the eerie resonances and compelling creative possibilities if theology listens to Radiohead as it engages with the machinery of modern life. Saler convincingly shows the shared ground between theology and Radiohead: a ringing defiance in the face of exploitation and mortality, and an insistence upon beauty and hope in and for a suffering world.”


—Edward Upton, Assistant Professor of Humanities, Christ College, Valparaiso University