An Outward and Visible Sign of an Inward and Spiritual Grace: Stewart Headlam on the Ballet
Drawing on Headlam's sermons, pamphlets, and letters, this article explores his theology of the ballet, a theology made possible by his conception of sacrament and sacramental bodies. Headlam's incarnational sacramentalism not only enabled a support of the stage as divinely created and a s...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2019]
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Church history and religious culture
Year: 2019, Volume: 99, Issue: 2, Pages: 248-269 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Headlam, Stewart D. 1847-1924
/ Ballet
/ Performing arts
/ Sacramental theology
/ Body
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| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KDE Anglican Church NBE Anthropology NBP Sacramentology; sacraments |
| Further subjects: | B
Theology
B Nineteenth Century B Ballet B Gender |
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| Summary: | Drawing on Headlam's sermons, pamphlets, and letters, this article explores his theology of the ballet, a theology made possible by his conception of sacrament and sacramental bodies. Headlam's incarnational sacramentalism not only enabled a support of the stage as divinely created and a sacrosanct space, but created an approach to dancers, particularly women, that was distinct in its treatment of all bodies as the same in potentiality before God. His sacramentalism defied the standard conflation of dance with female transgression and male danger. Accordingly, Headlam's vision of the earthly kingdom of God was one in which there was truly neither male nor female, and in which the stage and its ballerinas could act as models of the grace of Christ rather than as reflections of fallen humanity. |
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| ISSN: | 1871-2428 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Church history and religious culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18712428-09902001 |