Gospel on the Box:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Gospel on the Box: "
Colin Heber-Percy

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1077622
Doc. No	:	LA121251
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15733831-12341593‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Colin Heber-Percy
Title & Author	:	Gospel on the Box: [Article] : Can Television Drama be Missional?\ Colin Heber-Percy
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Mission Studies
Date	:	2018
Volume/ Issue Number	:	35/3
Page No	:	431–451
Abstract	:	In 2011 I wrote the television drama The Preston Passion for the BBC. The aim was to retell the story of Christ’s Passion in a series of provoking and unexpected ways. Pilate becomes a town mayor during a mill workers’ strike in nineteenth century England; Mary becomes a mother awaiting news of her son during World War I; Jesus is a young carer in contemporary Preston, a city in the north of England. Drawing on the experience of writing the drama, I aim to show how drama and mission are related enterprises, having a complex and nuanced relationship with one another and with the prevailing culture. These putative relationships find expression in shared prophetic modalities: truth-telling, challenge, and love. The article explores how these modalities are expressed in television drama and mission. I conclude by suggesting that both drama and mission also share a goal: personal and cultural transformation through bearing witness to the truth understood in a particular way. In 2011 I wrote the television drama The Preston Passion for the BBC. The aim was to retell the story of Christ’s Passion in a series of provoking and unexpected ways. Pilate becomes a town mayor during a mill workers’ strike in nineteenth century England; Mary becomes a mother awaiting news of her son during World War I; Jesus is a young carer in contemporary Preston, a city in the north of England. Drawing on the experience of writing the drama, I aim to show how drama and mission are related enterprises, having a complex and nuanced relationship with one another and with the prevailing culture. These putative relationships find expression in shared prophetic modalities: truth-telling, challenge, and love. The article explores how these modalities are expressed in television drama and mission. I conclude by suggesting that both drama and mission also share a goal: personal and cultural transformation through bearing witness to the truth understood in a particular way.
Descriptor	:	culture
Descriptor	:	drama
Descriptor	:	mission
Descriptor	:	Passion
Descriptor	:	television
Descriptor	:	transformation
Descriptor	:	truth
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15733831-12341593‬