[Zack Nguyen]

I'd like to hear more about the Christianity he professed in the 1970's - and why he refused to comment on it after recording three albums filled with music about Christ. I was very young then, but I've been told that he was abused unmercifully by his audience which rejected his Christian lyrics, and after that he just clammed up.

[don-o]

I'd like to hear more about the Christianity he professed in the 1970's

Heard of google,com?

Lot's of stuff out there.

[don-o]

Bill Parr’s page on Dylan and Christianity

[Skooz]

I'd like to hear more about the Christianity he professed in the 1970's - and why he refused to comment on it after recording three albums filled with music about Christ. I was very young then, but I've been told that he was abused unmercifully by his audience which rejected his Christian lyrics, and after that he just clammed up.

I have heard that is wasn't the negative reaction of his audiences (and it was vicious), but the reaction of fellow Christians that caused Dylan to "clam up."

He immediately became the spokesman for millions of people who were eager to use Dylan to do their witnessing for them.

He was a baby Christian, learning about his new faith, and Christians who should have known better tried to force him to speak for them and to serve as a celeb icon of their beliefs.

[tdunbar]

No, he didn't clam up..just wrote less directly. Listen to "Oh, Mercy" or "Time out of Mind" albums, many of whose songs resonate with christian sensitivity. His most recent album, Love and Theft, has a wonderful prophetic song from the Lord to his bride:

Bye and bye, I'm breathin' a lover's sigh
I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time
I'm singin' love's praises with sugar-coated rhyme
Bye and bye, on you I'm casting my eye

I'm paintin' the town - swinging my partner around
I know who I can depend on, I know who to trust
I'm watchin' the roads, I'm studying the dust
I'm paintin' the town, making my last go-round

Well, I'm scufflin' and I'm shufflin' 
  and I'm walkin' on briars
I'm not even acquainted with my own desires

I'm rollin' slow - I'm doing all I know
I'm tellin' myself I found true happiness
That I've still got a dream that hasn't been repossessed
I'm rollin' slow, goin' where the wild roses grow

Well the future for me is already a thing of the past
You were my first love and you will be my last

Papa gone mad, mamma, she's feeling sad
I'm gonna baptize you in fire so you can sin no more
I'm gonna establish my rule through civil war
Gonna make you see just how loyal and true a man can be

-- Bye and Bye, copyright 2001

[MrLee]

He almost always sings "Christian" songs at his concerts-mostly not released on cd: "I Am The Man Thomas, City of Gold, Ain't Going To Hell For Anybody" are just a couple that come to mind.
I beleive he is Saved.