The Dramatizing Of Theology

Author : Matthew S. Farlow
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532603860

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The Dramatizing of Theology by Matthew S. Farlow Pdf

Matthew Farlow traces the thoughts of Balthasar and Barth so as to enter into theological truth of God's Being-in-Act. This exploration embarks on a journey into the reality of our Triune God who has engaged his creation so as to elicit fellow actors. God seeking out humanity is God with us, a truth that not only informs our theological endeavors, but invites us into the dramatic performance of reconciliation. As Farlow illumines, God is an acting God who seeks fellow participants in his ongoing drama of salvation. Through the dramatizing of theology, the church and her theologians come to realize God's threefold movement--revelation, invitation and reconciliation. It is a unified act that startles humanity, and thus theology, out of its "spectator's seat," so as to drag it onto the world's stage. As Farlow discusses, it is through the dramatizing of theology that we find ourselves best equipped to participate faithfully in the role of a lifetime.

Author : Matthew S. Farlow
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532603853

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The Dramatizing of Theology by Matthew S. Farlow Pdf

Matthew Farlow traces the thoughts of Balthasar and Barth so as to enter into theological truth of God’s Being-in-Act. This exploration embarks on a journey into the reality of our Triune God who has engaged his creation so as to elicit fellow actors. God seeking out humanity is God with us, a truth that not only informs our theological endeavors, but invites us into the dramatic performance of reconciliation. As Farlow illumines, God is an acting God who seeks fellow participants in his ongoing drama of salvation. Through the dramatizing of theology, the church and her theologians come to realize God’s threefold movement—revelation, invitation and reconciliation. It is a unified act that startles humanity, and thus theology, out of its “spectator’s seat,” so as to drag it onto the world’s stage. As Farlow discusses, it is through the dramatizing of theology that we find ourselves best equipped to participate faithfully in the role of a lifetime.

Author : Ben Quash
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139446099

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Theology and the Drama of History by Ben Quash Pdf

How can theology think and talk about history? Building on the work of the major twentieth-century theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar as well as entering into sharp critical debate with him, this book sets out to examine the value and the potential of a 'theodramatic' conception of history. By engaging in dialogue not only with theologians and philosophers like von Balthasar, Hegel and Barth, but with poets and dramatists such as the Greek tragedians, Shakespeare and Gerard Manley Hopkins, the book makes its theological principles open and indebted to literary forms, and seeks to show how such a theology might be applied to a world intrinsically and thoroughly historical. By contrast with theologies that stand back from the contingencies of history and so fight shy of the uncertainties and openness of Christian existence, this book's theology is committed to taking seriously the God who works in time.

Author : Hans Urs von Balthasar
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780898702958

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Theo-drama: Theological Dramatic Theory, Vol. 3 by Hans Urs von Balthasar Pdf

Author : Tamara Atkin
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Christian drama, English
ISBN : 250354651X

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The Drama of Reform by Tamara Atkin Pdf

The chapters in this book include: 'Spectacle and Sacrilege: The Croxton'; 'Performance and Polemic'; 'Staging Iconoclasm: Lewis Wager's 'Life and Repentaunce of Mary Magdalene' and Cranmer's Laws Against Images'; and much more.

Author : Ahmi Lee
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493419883

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Preaching God's Grand Drama by Ahmi Lee Pdf

How can preachers preach biblically faithful sermons that move listeners to positive action? An author on the cutting edge of contemporary homiletics and theology offers a fresh approach to preaching that helps listeners see themselves as actors in God's grand drama. Ahmi Lee presents a unifying "third way" in homiletical approaches (i.e., theodramatic) that reimagines the preacher's role in relation to the Bible, the congregation, and the world. The book not only helps students understand various preaching models but also is relevant to working preachers who want to critique and improve their approach. Foreword by Mark Labberton.

Author : Craig G. Bartholomew,Michael W. Goheen
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441246196

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The Drama of Scripture by Craig G. Bartholomew,Michael W. Goheen Pdf

This bestselling textbook surveys the grand narrative of the Bible, demonstrating how the biblical story forms the foundation of a Christian worldview. The second edition has been thoroughly revised. Additional material is available online through Baker Academic's Textbook eSources, offering course help for professors and study aids for students. Resources include discussion questions, a Bible reading schedule, an adult Bible class schedule, and a course syllabus.

Author : Kevin J. Vanhoozer
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664223273

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The Drama of Doctrine by Kevin J. Vanhoozer Pdf

Observing a strange disappearance of doctrine within the church, Kevin Vanhoozer argues that there is no more urgent task for Christians today than to engage in living truthfully with others before God. He details how doctrine serves the church--the theater of the gospel--by directing individuals and congregations to participate in the drama of what God is doing to renew all things in Jesus Christ. Taking his cue from George Lindbeck and others who locate the criteria of Christian identity in Spirit-led church practices, Vanhoozer relocates the norm for Christian doctrine in the canonical practices, which, he argues, both provoke and preserve the integrity of the church's witness as prophetic and apostolic.

Author : Hans Urs von Balthasar
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780898706895

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Theo-Drama: Theological Dramatic Theory, Vol. 5 by Hans Urs von Balthasar Pdf

This is the final volume of this series on "theological dramatic theory" by the great 20th century theologian Balthasar. This series is the second part of Balthasar's trilogy on the good, the beautiful and the true which is his major work. The first series in the trilogy is The Glory of the Lord, and following this Theo-Drama series will be Theo-Logic. In this series "the good" has been the focus. Balthasar maintains that it is in the theater that man attempts a kind of transcendence to observe and to judge his own truth about himself. He sees the phenomenon of theater as a source of fruitfulness for theological reflection on the cosmic drama that involves earth and heaven. This fifth volume is trinitarian, focusing on the mystery of God. He draws heavily on Scripture and many passages from the works of the mystic Adrienne von Spyer. Some of the topics covered include "A Christian Eschotology," "The World is from the Trinity," "Earth moves Heavenward," "The Final Act: A Trinitarian Drama."

Author : Kevin J. Vanhoozer
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611645422

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Faith Speaking Understanding by Kevin J. Vanhoozer Pdf

In this volume, highly esteemed scholar Kevin Vanhoozer introduces readers to a way of thinking about Christian theology that takes the work he began in the groundbreaking 2005 book, The Drama of Doctrine, to its next level. Vanhoozer argues that theology is not merely a set of cognitive beliefs, but is also something we do that involves speech and action alike. He uses a theatrical model to explain the ways in which doctrine shapes Christian understanding and forms disciples. The church, Vanhoozer posits, is the preeminent theater where the gospel is "performed," with doctrine directing this performance. Doctrines are not simply truths to be stored, shelved, and stacked, but indications and directions to be followed, practiced, and enacted. In "performing" doctrine, Christians are shaped into active disciples of Jesus Christ. He goes on to examine the state of the church in today's world and explores how disciples can do or perform doctrine. Written in an accessible and engaging style, Faith Speaking Understanding sets forth a compelling vision of what the church is and what it should be doing, and demonstrates the importance of Christian doctrine for this mission. Disciples who want to follow Christ in all situations need doctrinal direction as they walk onto the social stage in the great theater of the world. The Christian faith is about acknowledging, and participating in, the great thing God is doing in our world: making all things new in Christ through the Holy Spirit. Doctrine ministers understanding: of God, of the drama of redemption, of the church as a company of faithful players, and of individual actors, all of whom have important roles to play. In an age where things fall apart and centers fail to hold, doctrine centers us in Jesus Christ, in whom all things hold together.

Author : Trevor Hart,Wesley Vander Lugt
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780718843519

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Theatrical Theology by Trevor Hart,Wesley Vander Lugt Pdf

Theology is inherently theatrical, rooted in God's performance on the world stage and oriented toward faith seeking performative understanding in the theatre of everyday life. Following Hans Urs von Balthasar's magisterial, five-volume 'Theo-Drama', a growing number of theologians and pastors have been engaging more widely with theatre and drama, producing what has been recognized as a

Author : Timothy G. Gombis
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830827206

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The Drama of Ephesians by Timothy G. Gombis Pdf

In Timothy Gombis's dramatic reading of Ephesians we are drawn into a theological and cultural engagement with this epochal story of redemption. The Drama of Ephesians stands in the space between commentaries and specialized studies in Ephesians. Here you will renew your excitement for studying, preaching and teaching this great letter of Paul.

Author : Hans Urs von Balthasar
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780898702873

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Theo-Drama: Theological Dramatic Theory, Vol. 2 by Hans Urs von Balthasar Pdf

The first volume of this series surveyed the great world dramatists to gather concepts and ideas to apply to the real stage, which is the universe God has made and centered into himself as an actor. This volume describes the actors, the dramatis personae. This is his theological anthropology concerning man, his freedom and destiny in the light of biblical revelation. Von Balthasar is concerned here with the dramatic character of existence as a whole, approaching the topic through a consideration of the various conditions and situations of mankind as a drama that involves both the Creator and his creatures.

Author : Jay Zysk
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780268102326

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Shadow and Substance by Jay Zysk Pdf

Shadow and Substance is the first book to present a sustained examination of the relationship between Eucharistic controversy and English drama across the Reformation divide. In this compelling interdisciplinary study, Jay Zysk contends that the Eucharist is not just a devotional object or doctrinal crux, it also shapes a way of thinking about physical embodiment and textual interpretation in theological and dramatic contexts. Regardless of one’s specific religious identity, to speak of the Eucharist during that time was to speak of dynamic interactions between body and sign. In crossing periodic boundaries and revising familiar historical narratives, Shadow and Substance challenges the idea that the Protestant Reformation brings about a decisive shift from the flesh to the word, the theological to the poetic, and the sacred to the secular. The book also adds to studies of English drama and Reformation history by providing an account of how Eucharistic discourse informs understandings of semiotic representation in broader cultural domains. This bold study offers fresh, imaginative readings of theology, sermons, devotional books, and dramatic texts from a range of historical, literary, and religious perspectives. Each of the book’s chapters creates a dialogue between different strands of Eucharistic theology and different varieties of English drama. Spanning England’s long reformation, these plays—some religious in subject matter, others far more secular—reimagine semiotic struggles that stem from the controversies over Christ’s body at a time when these very concepts were undergoing significant rethinking in both religious and literary contexts. Shadow and Substance will have a wide appeal, especially to those interested in medieval and early modern drama and performance, literary theory, Reformation history, and literature and religion.

Author : Hans Urs von Balthasar
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780898704716

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Theo-Drama: Theological Dramatic Theory, Vol. 4 by Hans Urs von Balthasar Pdf

Having presented his christology and mariology under the sign of the "Dramatis Personae" in volume three of Theo-Drama, von Balthasar now turns to the action of the divine drama itself. Here we find his soteriology, where time, freedom, history, power, sin, conflict are seen in the light of the Cross, the culmination of the action and passion of God and man. As Balthasar expresses it in the conclusion to his preface: here "we discern the unity of 'glory' and the 'dramatic'. God's glory, as it appears in the world--supremely in Christ--is not something static that could be observed by a neutral investigator. It manifests itself only through the personal involvement whereby God himself comes forth to do battle and is both victor and vanquished. If this glory is to come within our range at all, an analogous initiative is called for on our part. Revelation is a battlefield. Those who do battle on it can only be believers and theologians, provided they have equipped themselves with the whole armor of God (Eph 6:11)."