Transgressive Devotion
Theology as Performance Art
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Publisher: SCM Press
ISBN: 9780334066064
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 28/02/2021
Width: 14 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.
Opening 1
Father 27
Spirit 53
Son 87
Church 114
Salvation 139
Humanity 172
Closing 196
Acknowledgements 204
Bibliography 207
Index 217