Religious Satire and the Crucified Christ

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" Religious Satire and the Crucified Christ "
Jan Martijn Abrahamse

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1083062
Doc. No	:	LA126691
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15743012-bja10006‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Jan Martijn Abrahamse
Title & Author	:	Religious Satire and the Crucified Christ [Article]\ Jan Martijn Abrahamse
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and Theology
Date	:	2020
Volume/ Issue Number	:	27/1-2
Page No	:	15–46
Abstract	:	This article discusses the relationship between religious satire and Christian theology to explore the possibility of satiric theology. It takes its departure from the proclamation of the cross (cf. 1 Cor 1:27) to demonstrate that the Crucified Christ can be a source for satire. To accomplish this, Paul Simpson’s analysis of satire is used to analyse the notorious crucifixion scene of Monty Python’s Life of Brian. Subsequently, by way of Stanley Hauerwas’s theorising of irony, it is argued that satiric theology is theology in iconoclastic fashion. Hence, satiric theology supplies alternative comical stories to estrange people from the familiar and challenge misconceptions, thereby offering a valuable contribution to theological debate and Christian practice. This article discusses the relationship between religious satire and Christian theology to explore the possibility of satiric theology. It takes its departure from the proclamation of the cross (cf. 1 Cor 1:27) to demonstrate that the Crucified Christ can be a source for satire. To accomplish this, Paul Simpson’s analysis of satire is used to analyse the notorious crucifixion scene of Monty Python’s Life of Brian. Subsequently, by way of Stanley Hauerwas’s theorising of irony, it is argued that satiric theology is theology in iconoclastic fashion. Hence, satiric theology supplies alternative comical stories to estrange people from the familiar and challenge misconceptions, thereby offering a valuable contribution to theological debate and Christian practice.
Descriptor	:	Life of Brian
Descriptor	:	satire
Descriptor	:	Stanley Hauerwas
Descriptor	:	theologia crucis
Descriptor	:	theology of the cross
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15743012-bja10006‬