The Empty Church by Shannon Craigosnell
Why go to church? What happens in church and why does it matter? The Empty Church presents fresh answers to these questions by creating an interdisciplinary conversation between theater directors and Christian theologians. This original study expands church beyond the sanctuary and into life. Shannon Craigo-Snell emphasizes the importance of liturgical worship in forming Christians as characters crafted by the texts of the Bible. This formation includes shaping how Christians know, in ways that involve the intellect, emotions, body, and will. Each chapter brings a theater director into dialogue with a theologian, teasing out the ways performance enriches hermeneutics, anthropology, and epistemology. Thinkers like Karl Barth, Peter Brook, Delores Williams, and Bertolt Brecht are examined for their insights into theology, worship, and theater. The result is a compelling depiction of church as performance of relationship with Jesus Christ, mediated by Scripture, in hope of the Holy Spirit. Liturgical worship, at its best, forms Christians in patterns of affections. This includes the cultivation of emotion memories influenced by biblical narratives, as well as a repertoire of physical actions that evoke particular affections. Liturgy also encourages Christians to step into various roles, enabling them to make intellectual and volitional choices about what roles to take up in society. Through liturgical worship, the author argues, Christians can be formed as people who hope, and therefore as people who live in expectation of the presence and grace of God. This entails a discipline of emptiness that awaits and appreciates the Holy Spirit. Church performance must therefore be provisional, ongoing, and open to further inspiration.
Shannon Craigo-Snell makes an important contribution to the growing conversation between theater studies and Christian theology, especially the ways performance theory can provide important insights into how Christian worship and ethics either enable or fall short of enabling their central task: the formation of Christian disciples.. This is an insightful book on worship, practice, and Christian ethics. * Aaron Klink, Religious Studies Review *
There is something intriguing about the inter-disciplinary approach to doing theology. Shannon Craigo-Snell's The Empty Church as a dialogue between the disciplines of performance theory and theology is a case in point...For anyone who desires to transform worship into a vital, experimental, and theologically meaningful experience, this book offers salient insights. * Touchstone *
...[A]n illuminating and provoking ecclesiology in dialogue with theater and performance studies. * Theology *
The Empty Church offers a fascinating theological exploration of how the possibilities and limitations of church can be more profoundly understood through the lens of theater studies. The theater image goes far beyond a rich metaphor to enhance the ecclesiological imagination. Craigo-Snell offers groundbreaking work on the function of bodies, scripture, emotions and performance in worship with this approach. A must read. * Mary McClintock Fulkerson, Professor of Theology, Divinity School Duke University *
If you enjoy making interdisciplinary connections (as I do) there is much to relish here ... it is imaginative and exploratory and well worth reading on that account. * Robin Gill, Scottish Journal of Theology. *
With an enviable combination of erudition, clarity and wit, Shannon Craigo-Snell invites those who think they know what church is, and those who think they know what theatre is, to take another look and think again. Her grasp of the deep connections between them modifies our understanding of both. An exciting contribution to the burgeoning conversation between Christian theology and theater arts. * Trevor Hart, Rector of Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church, St Andrews; Honorary Professor of Divinity in the University of St Andrews *
Church as performance a powerful image for the possibilities of how the church does and could function as a source for forming us through our worship. Craigo-Snell offers a marvelous integration of performance and theater to offer a model of liturgical worship that opens us to holy inspiration that forms us into a people of hope who live in expectation of the presence and grace of God. Powerful reading. * Emilie M. Townes, Dean and the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Divinity School *
There is something intriguing about the inter-disciplinary approach to doing theology. Shannon Craigo-Snell's The Empty Church as a dialogue between the disciplines of performance theory and theology is a case in point...For anyone who desires to transform worship into a vital, experimental, and theologically meaningful experience, this book offers salient insights. * Touchstone *
...[A]n illuminating and provoking ecclesiology in dialogue with theater and performance studies. * Theology *
The Empty Church offers a fascinating theological exploration of how the possibilities and limitations of church can be more profoundly understood through the lens of theater studies. The theater image goes far beyond a rich metaphor to enhance the ecclesiological imagination. Craigo-Snell offers groundbreaking work on the function of bodies, scripture, emotions and performance in worship with this approach. A must read. * Mary McClintock Fulkerson, Professor of Theology, Divinity School Duke University *
If you enjoy making interdisciplinary connections (as I do) there is much to relish here ... it is imaginative and exploratory and well worth reading on that account. * Robin Gill, Scottish Journal of Theology. *
With an enviable combination of erudition, clarity and wit, Shannon Craigo-Snell invites those who think they know what church is, and those who think they know what theatre is, to take another look and think again. Her grasp of the deep connections between them modifies our understanding of both. An exciting contribution to the burgeoning conversation between Christian theology and theater arts. * Trevor Hart, Rector of Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church, St Andrews; Honorary Professor of Divinity in the University of St Andrews *
Church as performance a powerful image for the possibilities of how the church does and could function as a source for forming us through our worship. Craigo-Snell offers a marvelous integration of performance and theater to offer a model of liturgical worship that opens us to holy inspiration that forms us into a people of hope who live in expectation of the presence and grace of God. Powerful reading. * Emilie M. Townes, Dean and the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Divinity School *
Shannon Craigo-Snell is Professor of Theology at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780190630096 |
| ISBN 10 | 0190630094 |
| Titel | The Empty Church |
| Autor | Shannon Craigosnell |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2016-09-08 |
| Seitenanzahl | 224 |
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