But when they experience liturgical drama, they are shaken, moved beyond the purely rational. Jacks studied with Hartman in the early 1970s. A member of the Seminary faculty since the late '60s, Jacks first directed Counterpoint at the Seminary in 1971. He looks forward to doing it again more than twenty-five years later. He is now PTS's Arthur Sarrell Rudd Professor of Speech Communication in Ministry, and this production will be his inaugural presentation in that chair.
Counterpoint is a drama for seven voices and drums.
The characters are three soldiers, their wives, and a woman from the other side. Hartman believed that whenever love and peace enter the world, whether through Jesus Christ, a Gandhi, or a Martin Luther King, we crucify it. That happens over and over again. Jacks returned to Sweden, where he had first met and worked with Hartman in 1970, this past summer during his sabbatical. While there, he met two men who told him that they are now priests in the Church of Sweden because of Counterpoint.