National Catholic Register: How Many Roads? Bob Dylan’s Path to Faith and Encounter With John Paul II

The Prodigal Poet’s lyrics explore themes of salvation, damnation and the eternal quest for truth.

By Luke Larson

Last December’s Oscar-nominated film A Complete Unknown tells the story of how the budding music legend Bob Dylan made the controversial decision to switch from acoustic to electric guitar at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. Many folk-music fans, who revered Dylan as a great hero of the genre, viewed the move as a betrayal.

Some fans of the countercultural musician felt similarly betrayed by a much more profound change that Dylan underwent in the late ’70s: a conversion to Christianity. The details of Dylan’s personal faith have not always been clear. What is clear is that Christ, the Bible and Catholicism have provided inspiration throughout the career of one of America’s greatest songwriters.

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