Gospel on the Box: Can Television Drama be Missional?
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...
| Published in: | Mission studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2018
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| In: |
Mission studies
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
The Preston Passion
/ Passion
/ Dramatization
/ Mission
/ Emotion
/ Provocation
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| RelBib Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture RJ Mission; missiology |
| Further subjects: | B
Mission
drama
television
culture
truth
transformation
Passion
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-3831 |
| Contains: | In: Mission studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341593 |