Empty Church
Subtitle: Theater, Theology, and Bodily Hope
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780199827923
Subjects: Liturgics; Public worship; Theater, religious aspects; Performing arts
Description: This title offers a novel vision of church through interdisciplinary conversation between performance studies, theatre directors, and Christian theologians. Each chapter brings a theatre director into dialogue with a theologian, teasing out how the concept of performance enriches hermeneutics, anthropology, and epistemology. The result is a compelling depiction of church as performance of relationship with Jesus Christ, mediated by Scripture, in hope of the Holy Spirit.