1st Edition

Faithful Performances Enacting Christian Tradition

By Steven R. Guthrie, Trevor A. Hart Copyright 2007
296 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

The metaphor of performance has been applied fruitfully by anthropologists and other social theorists to different aspects of human social existence, and furnishes a potentially helpful model in terms of which to think theologically about Christian life. After an introductory editorial chapter reflecting on the nature of artistic performance and its relationship to the notions of tradition and... Read more

Faithful Performances

Biography

Trevor A. Hart is Professor of Divinity and Principal of St Mary's College, University of St Andrews, UK. He is Director of the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts. Steven R. Guthrie is Lecturer in Theology at Belmont University, Nashville, USA.