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Transgressive Devotion

Theology as Performance Art

Transgressive Devotion

Theology as Performance Art

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Publisher: SCM Press
ISBN: 9780334059479
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 28/02/2021
Width: 13.5 cm
Height: 21.6 cm

Academic theology is in need of a new genre.

In "Transgressive Devotion" Natalie Wigg-Stevenson articulates a theological vision of that genre as performance art. She argues that theology done as performance art stops trying to describe who God is, and starts trying to make God appear.

Recognising that the act of studying theology or practicing ministry is always a performance, where the boundaries between what we see, feel, experience and learn are not just blurred but potentially invisible, Wigg-Stevenson brings together ethnographic theological fieldwork, historical and contemporary Christian theological traditions, and performance artworks themselves.

A daring vision of theology which will energise anybody feeling 'boxed in' by the discipline, Transgressive Devotion blurs borders between orthodoxy, heterodoxy and heresy to reveal how the very act of doing theology makes God and humanity vulnerable to each other.

This is theology which is a liturgy of Divine incantation. In other words: this is theology which is also prayer.

Blog - Natalie Wigg-Stevens reflects on God's faulty memory. 

Opening 1 Father 27 Spirit 53 Son 87 Church 114 Salvation 139 Humanity 172 Closing 196 Acknowledgements 204 Bibliography 207 Index 217

Natalie Wigg-Stevenson

Natalie Wigg-Stevenson teaches Theology and directs the Contextual Education Program at Emmanuel College, Toronto. Her research focus is on how ethnographic methods help create theological conversations across church, academy and everyday life. She is the author of "Ethnographic Theology: An Inquiry Into the Production of Theological Knowledge". She is the co-chair of the 'ecclesial practices' group at AAR.

"This is a mesmerising and suggestive book that reworks what it means to be a theologian" -- Pete Ward, Durham University, UK

"Transgressive Devotion may literally take your breath away, at first, but it will return to you in new form and with new energy, if you follow where it leads. As guide and muse, Wigg-Stevenson invites us to keep company with others feared and familiar, ancient and contemporary, in search of new ways of being faithful. Beautifully written, honest, and profoundly moving." -- Ellen T. Armour, Vanderbilt Divinity School, USA

"Gorgeous, moving, and marvelously queering, Wigg-Stevenson’s work feels like falling through a series of trap doors located at the foundations of our faith — places of instability that have, until now, been off-limits. The result unfurls a vast, new territory of theological exploration that pushes past constraint and taboo. In this new land, there is room to roam and reconstitute our relationship with God." -- Emily Scott, Pastor, Dreams and Visions, Baltimore

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