Faithful performances : enacting Christian tradition / edited by Trevor A. Hart, Steven R. Guthrie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hart, Trevor, 1967-

Guthrie, Steven, 1967-

Series:

Ashgate studies in theology, imagination, and the arts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Theater.

Performing arts--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Performing arts.

Identification (Religion).

Physical Description:

vi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]

Contents:

Theology, faith and theatre. Real enactments : the role of drama in the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar / Ben Quash ; A cautionary note on the use of theatre in theology / Ivan Patricio Khovacs ; Can an act be true? : the possibilities of the dramatic metaphor for theology within a post-Stanislavskian theatre / Joshua Edelman

Discipleship and the enactment of Christian identity. Performing faiths : patterns, pluralities and problems in the lives of religious traditions / Michael Partridge ; Temples of the Spirit : worship as embodied performance / Steven R. Guthrie ; Rhetoric and the literary sense : the sacred author's performance in Cajetan's exegesis of Scripture / Michael O'Connor ; Seeing through the drama : reframing violent news / Jolyon Mitchell ; Improvisation in the theatre as a model for Christian ethics / Samuel Wells ; The sense of an ending : finitude and the authentic performance of life / Trevor A. Hart

Artistry as Christian practice. The arts of redemption / Patrick Sherry ; Our truest poetry is our most feigning

poetry, playfulness and truth / Malcolm Guite ; Seeing the word : aspects of the visual culture of the Reformation / William Dyrness ; Created and uncreated light : the Transfiguration in Western art / Rosemary Muir Wright ; The Ascension and transfigured bodies

Resonances and challenges : a response to the volume / Jeremy Begbie.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0754655253

9780754655251

OCLC:

68192320