Faithful performances
Subtitle: enacting Christian tradition
By: edited by Trevor A. Hart, Steven R. Guthrie
Contributors: Hart, Trevor, 1967-; Guthrie, Steven, 1967-
Series: Ashgate studies in theology, imagination, and the arts
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780754655251
Subjects: Theater -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Performing arts -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Identification (Religion)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: 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; title: 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; title: Artistry as Christian practice. The arts of redemption / Patrick Sherry ; Our truest poetry is our most feigning; title: 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; title: Resonances and challenges : a response to the volume / Jeremy Begbie