Staging the Incarnation
If Shakespeare was right that all the world’s a stage and we are all actors performing particular roles, then what exactly is the drama…
The Mythological Traditions of Liturgical Drama: A Review
Christine C. Schnusenberg, The Mythological Traditions of Liturgical Drama: The Eucharist as Theater (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2010). “In the beginning there was theater.”…
Giving Thanks through Music: Over the Rhine
Through music, humans express and explore every possible area of emotion and experience. For example, we use music to mourn, celebrate, muse, rage, despair,…
Why Dance?
I love to dance. My experience as a dancer began as a child in an American family with strong ties to our Dutch heritage….
If Scripture Is Not a Script, Then What Is It?
Among Christian theologians and ethicists who utilise theatrical metaphors and models, it is common to assign to Scripture the role of script. If life…
Word Pictures: A Review
Brian Godawa. Word Pictures: Knowing God through Story and Imagination. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1999. Pp. 208. $16.00/£9.99. Word Pictures is an extended reflection…
Church Beyond the Fourth Wall
The playwright and director Peter Brook once stated: “The only thing that all forms of theatre have in common is the need for an…