Christian Life, Politics and an Audience’s Authority
Since last autumn’s Theatrical Theology conference at St Andrews, I’ve been mulling over Shannon Crago-Snell’s sophisticated and helpful reading of theatre as a metaphor…
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Should We Call Ourselves Christian?: 3 (Christian) Theatre Companies Speak
As an actor and theatre producer, who is also a Christian, I’ve repeatedly gone over a dilemma in my head. Do I call myself…
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Reviews: Religion, Theatre, and Performance and Blake.Wordsworth.Religion.
Lance Gharavi, ed. Religion, Theatre, and Performance: Acts of Faith. New York/Oxon: Routledge, 2012. 248 pp., £90.00/$131.00 case bound. The contributors to this volume…
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Review: The Poet as Believer
Aidan Nichols. The Poet as Believer: A Theological Study of Paul Claudel. Surrey: Ashgate Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts, 2011. 275 pp….
Read MoreSay Cheese? – The Blurring of Public and Private
Not too long ago, I was listening to the story of a guy (I’ll call him Mark) who went to see one of his…
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Theatrical Theology Conference – Registration Closes 1 August!
We interrupt our Transpositions break to remind you that the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts’ upcoming conference, Theatrical Theology: Conversations on Performing the Faith,…
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Mike Daisey’s False Witness
Mike Daisey, the truth-stretching monologist, has apologized for fabricating evidence about Foxconn, the Apple manufactory in Shenzhen, China, and has changed the script of…
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A Thesis on the Theatrical Turn in Christian Thought and Practice [Part Two]
Wes Vander Lugt’s thesis on the ‘theatrical turn’ in Christianity concludes below. To restate his thesis in full: Christian existence is a dialogical, divine…
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A Thesis on the Theatrical Turn in Christian Thought and Practice [Part One]
Due to circumstances outside our control, Josh Edelman’s post has been moved to Saturday. Today, please enjoy Part One of Wes Vander Lugt’s A Thesis…
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