Academic Theology is in need of a new genre.
In Transgressive Devotion Natalie Wigg-stevenson articulates a t.
Academic Theology is in need of a new genre.
In other words: this is Theology which is also prayer.
This is Theology which is a liturgy of Divine incantation.
Offering a daring vision of Theology which will energise anybody feeling \'boxed in\' by the discipline, Wigg-stevenson blurs borders between orthodoxy, heterodoxy and heresy to reveal how the very act of doing Theology makes God and humanity vulnerable to each other.
She argues that Theology done as Performance art stops trying to describe who God is, and starts trying to make God appear.
In Transgressive Devotion Natalie Wigg-stevenson articulates a theological vision of that genre as Performance art.
Academic Theology is in need of a new genre.
In other words: this is Theology which is also prayer.
This is Theology which is a liturgy of Divine incantation.
Offering a daring vision of Theology which will energise anybody feeling \'boxed in\' by the discipline, Wigg-stevenson blurs borders between orthodoxy, heterodoxy and heresy to reveal how the very act of doing Theology makes God and humanity vulnerable to each other.
She argues that Theology done as Performance art stops trying to describe who God is, and starts trying to make God appear.
In Transgressive Devotion Natalie Wigg-stevenson articulates a theological vision of that genre as Performance art.
Academic Theology is in need of a new genre.
In other words: this is Theology which is also prayer.
This is Theology which is a liturgy of Divine incantation.
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.
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.
She argues that Theology done as Performance art stops trying to describe who God is, and starts trying to make God appear.
In Transgressive Devotion Natalie Wigg-stevenson articulates a theological vision of that genre as Performance art.
Academic Theology is in need of a new genre
