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Transgressive Devotion

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: SCM Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.3 cm

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For theologians seeking fresh insights and creativity

Challenges traditional views that confine your faith

You will engage with God in a dynamic, new way

'Transgressive Devotion' redefines theology as performance art.

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.
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  • Title

    Transgressive Devotion

  • Author

    Natalie Wigg-Stevenson

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    SCM Press

  • Published

    February 2021

  • Weight

    282g

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780334059479

  • ISBN-10

    033405947X

  • Eden Code

    5528116

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