{"product_id":"the-empty-church-theater-theology-and-bodily-hope-9780199827923","title":"The Empty Church: Theater, Theology, and Bodily Hope","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Shannon Craigo-Snell\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Christian Theology - Ecclesiology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy go to church? What happens in church and why does it matter?\u003cem\u003e The Empty Church\u003c\/em\u003e presents fresh answers to these questions by creating an interdisciplinary conversation between theater directors and Christian theologians. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach chapter brings a theater director into dialogue with a theologian, teasing out the ways performance enriches hermeneutics, anthropology, and epistemology. Thinkers like \u003cem\u003eKarl Barth, Peter Brook, Delores Williams, and Bertolt Brecht are examined for their insights into theology, worship, and theater. \u003c\/em\u003eThe result is a compelling depiction of church as performance of relationship with Jesus Christ, mediated by Scripture, in hope of the Holy Spirit. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLiturgical 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47890678022295,"sku":"9780199827923","price":11686.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780199827923.webp?v=1781180898","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-empty-church-theater-theology-and-bodily-hope-9780199827923","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}