Six Biblical Plays for Contemporary Audiences

Six Biblical Plays for Contemporary Audiences
Author: Dr. Robin Gallaher Branch
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2016-06-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1498230857

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Fills a Need: For biblically based, thoroughly researched plays for a general audience. Is Fun: Laugh as members of the body of Christ sing and dance their way into your church. See others--and maybe yourself!--in the kindness of Heart, the gossip of Ear, the pride of Head, and the independence of Eye. Honors Women: Lets Mary tell Joseph of the angel Gabriel's visit. Recognizes Elizabeth's importance; she tells Luke 1 from her perspective. Is Funny: Human beings get in fixes and messes. Watch how God--with gentleness, humor, and tough love--delivers his people time and again. Encourages Participation: Suitable for actors ages nine to ninety-nine! Fosters Dialogue: Each play ends with Questions for Discussion. Shows Theology in the Making: Do theology the Godly way--with boots on the ground! Consider this evangelism model: The disciples have just seen the risen Lord Jesus ascend into heaven and can't wait to tell all Jerusalem! Invites Imagination: The characters in Proverbs gather in the marketplace and tell Simple Youth, a first-year university student, about their lifestyles. Which will he follow? Promotes This Concept: We all play our lives on stage to an audience of One: God.

Six Biblical Plays for Contemporary Audiences

Six Biblical Plays for Contemporary Audiences
Author: Robin Gallaher Branch
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2016-06-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1498230849

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Fills a Need: For biblically based, thoroughly researched plays for a general audience. Is Fun: Laugh as members of the body of Christ sing and dance their way into your church. See others--and maybe yourself!--in the kindness of Heart, the gossip of Ear, the pride of Head, and the independence of Eye. Honors Women: Lets Mary tell Joseph of the angel Gabriel's visit. Recognizes Elizabeth's importance; she tells Luke 1 from her perspective. Is Funny: Human beings get in fixes and messes. Watch how God--with gentleness, humor, and tough love--delivers his people time and again. Encourages Participation: Suitable for actors ages nine to ninety-nine! Fosters Dialogue: Each play ends with Questions for Discussion. Shows Theology in the Making: Do theology the Godly way--with boots on the ground! Consider this evangelism model: The disciples have just seen the risen Lord Jesus ascend into heaven and can't wait to tell all Jerusalem! Invites Imagination: The characters in Proverbs gather in the marketplace and tell Simple Youth, a first-year university student, about their lifestyles. Which will he follow? Promotes This Concept: We all play our lives on stage to an audience of One: God.

Biblical Theology of Life in the Old Testament

Biblical Theology of Life in the Old Testament
Author: Albert J. Coetsee
Publisher: AOSIS
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2021-11-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1776341759

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Life is a primary theme in Scripture, expressed in the rich diversity of the various books, corpora and genres of Scripture. Much has been published on what Scripture teaches about life and death. To date, however, no comprehensive biblical theology in which the concept of life is traced throughout the different books and corpora of the Old and New Testament has been published. It is this lacuna that this book aims to fill, assuming that such an approach can provide a valuable contribution to the theological discourse on life and related concepts. The primary aim of this book is to give an indication of the different nuances of the concept of life in the various books and corpora of the Old and New Testament by providing the reader with a book-by-book overview of the concept of life in Scripture. The secondary aim is to give an indication of the overall use and function of the concept of life in the Old Testament, the New Testament, and Scripture as a whole. The latter is provided by using the findings of the book-by-book overview of the concept of life in Scripture to draw the lines together.

Enacting the Bible in medieval and early modern drama

Enacting the Bible in medieval and early modern drama
Author: Eva von Contzen
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2020-03-13
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1526131617

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The thirteen chapters in this collection open up new horizons for the study of biblical drama by putting special emphasis on multitemporality, the intersections of biblical narrative and performance, and the strategies employed by playwrights to rework and adapt the biblical source material in Catholic, Protestant and Jewish culture. Aspects under scrutiny include dramatic traditions, confessional and religious rites, dogmas and debates, conceptualisations of performance, and audience response. The contributors stress the co-presence of biblical and contemporary concerns in the periods under discussion, conceiving of biblical drama as a central participant in the dynamic struggle to both interpret and translate the Bible.

Early Modern Drama and the Bible

Early Modern Drama and the Bible
Author: A. Streete
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2011-10-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230358667

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Early modern drama is steeped in biblical language, imagery and stories. This collection examines the pervasive presence of scripture on the early modern stage. Exploring plays by writers such as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, and Webster, the contributors show how theatre offers a site of public and communal engagement with the Bible.

Drama Magazine

Drama Magazine
Author: Charles Hubbard Sergei
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1928
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

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Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, vol. 30

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, vol. 30
Author: S.P. Cerasano
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2017-09-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0838644848

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Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an annual volume committed to the publication of essays and reviews related to drama and theatre history to 1642. Volume 30, an anniversary issue, contains eight essays, three review essays, and 12 briefer reviews of important books in the field.

Drama

Drama
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 564
Release: 1923
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

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The Drama

The Drama
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 480
Release: 1923
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

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Performing Religion on the Secular Stage

Performing Religion on the Secular Stage
Author: Sharon Aronson-Lehavi
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2023-06-02
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1000894940

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This book examines the relations between Western religion, secularism, and modern theater and performance. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi posits that the ongoing cultural power of religious texts, icons, and ideas on the one hand and the artistic freedom enabled by secularism and avant-garde experimentalism on the other, has led theatre artists throughout the twentieth century to create a uniquely modern theatrical hybrid–theater performances that simultaneously re-inscribe and grapple with religion and religious performativity. The book compares this phenomenon with medieval forms of religious theater and offers deep and original analyses of significant contemporary works ranging from plays and performances by August Strindberg, Hugo Ball (Dada), Jerzy Grotowski, and Hanoch Levin, to those created by Adrienne Kennedy, Rina Yerushalmi, Deb Margolin, Milo Rau, and Sarah Ruhl. The book analyzes a new and original historiography of a uniquely modern theatrical phenomenon, a study that is of high importance considering the reemergence of religion in contemporary culture and politics.