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Faithful Performances - Enacting Christian Tradition (Paperback)
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Faithful Performances - Enacting Christian Tradition (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts
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The metaphor of performance has been applied fruitfully by
anthropologists and other social theorists to different aspects of
human social existence, and furnishes a potentially helpful model
in terms of which to think theologically about Christian life.
After an introductory editorial chapter reflecting on the nature of
artistic performance and its relationship to the notions of
tradition and identity, Part One of this book attends specifically
to the phenomenon of dramatic performance and possible theological
applications of it. Part Two considers various aspects of the
performance of Christian identity, looking at worship, the
interpretation of the Bible, Christian response to elements in the
contemporary media, the shape of Christian moral life, and ending
with a theological reflection on the shape of personal identity,
correlating it with the theatrical metaphors of 'character' and
'performing a part' in a scripted drama. Part Three demonstrates
how art forms (including some technically non-performative ones -
literature, poetry, painting) may constitute faithful Christian
practices in which the tradition is authentically 'performed',
producing works which break open its meaning in profound new ways
for a constantly shifting context.
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