tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5104845122477918093.post6937102447060435863..comments2023-04-15T10:50:50.538+01:00Comments on BeatLiturgist: Dialogue, the Purpose of Preaching and the Toothless Walrus.BeatLiturgisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11919191298432403231noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5104845122477918093.post-64812399937534324912012-03-29T14:41:24.012+01:002012-03-29T14:41:24.012+01:00It does, and it requires a physical presence that ...It does, and it requires a physical presence that may be embodied vulnerability. Actual vulnerability. Or perceived vulnerability. Or enacted vulnerability.<br /><br />The physicality of a person reading to others is an incredibly powerful instigation of thoughts and movements of the heart, quite often defying logic and poetry and passion. But still powerful.<br /><br />Helpful stuff.BeatLiturgisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17916977593204872081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5104845122477918093.post-25462507555990401022012-03-28T21:09:45.799+01:002012-03-28T21:09:45.799+01:00The vulnerability of just reading the text still r...The vulnerability of just reading the text still requires a physical presence.Ned Lunnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03063255592359310777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5104845122477918093.post-32664091876286642332012-03-28T15:50:29.125+01:002012-03-28T15:50:29.125+01:00Helpful comments Ned. I am with you regarding the ...Helpful comments Ned. I am with you regarding the danger of refusing "the vulnerability of interaction" in the last paragraph.<br /><br />I wonder though, whether there is also a place, whereby accepting vulnerability, is at times, simply to read the script. To recognise in vulnerability that at times, that, in weakness, and also, in valued words, that is all there is to give.<br /><br />Helpful comments.<br /><br />I also love the thing about the "embodied text".<br /><br />Thanks for the comment: comment is such a pithy word.BeatLiturgisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17916977593204872081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5104845122477918093.post-88692343326238663282012-03-28T15:15:09.902+01:002012-03-28T15:15:09.902+01:00Nice reflections.
You already know the answer to ...Nice reflections.<br /><br />You already know the answer to the question you posed to me. The answer is all about engaging in a story; the character and narrative. (Just reading Hauerwas discussing which takes precedent the character of the narrative but I digress) The connection between people can never be replaced by an individuals interactions with a text. The embodied text is the only thing that gives that sucker punch. I may be able to read the text but I can't read your character. Even if you're a fantastic writer (which you are) there is something in being present (both spatially and temporally) with you that connects us and engages us together. THe dialogue happens, silently between our eyes and our bodies. There's an excitement about me being acknowledged or the potentiality of acknowledgement. Rowan Williams suggests,<br /><br />'We are led into the knowledge that our identity is being made in the relations of bodies, not by the private exercise of will or fantasy.'<br /><br />As a preacher, it is important that you respond to the dynamic of having the gathered people there. If you just read the script with no interaction between yourself and the other then it is a perversion of relationship. Williams, because he is discussing sexual practices, uses overt sexual language but suggests that rape, pedophilia and bestiality are perversions because they are,<br /><br />'sexual activity without risk, without the dangerous acknowledgement that my joy depends on someone else's, as theirs does on mine'<br /><br />Your sermon is worthless without a hearer. If you refuse to allow the gathered body of people to impact the words then you refuse them to shape you and therefore you remain in control and refuse the vulnerability of interaction. Live theatre, at its best, engages fully in vulnerability of allowing something outside of yourself shape and mould you.<br /><br />Or at least that's where I'm up to at the moment but as you say...' it's a journey'.Ned Lunnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03063255592359310777noreply@blogger.com