Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts (ITIA) Theses: Recent submissions
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Multivalence, liminality, and the theological imagination : contextualising the image of fire for contemporary Christian practice
(University of St Andrews, 2018-12-07) - ThesisThis thesis contends that the image of fire is a multivalent and theologically valuable image for application in British Christian communities. My research offers an original contribution by contextualising the image of ... -
Towards a eucharistic theatre : the theatrical theologies of the Reduta, the Rhapsodic Theatre, and Grotowski's Lab
(University of St Andrews, 2016-06-21) - ThesisThis thesis explores the use of eucharistic language in the theatre theories of three different mid-20th-century Polish theatre companies--the Reduta Theatre, the Rhapsodic Theatre, and the Laboratory Theatre--especially ... -
A liberative imagination : reconsidering the fiction of Charlotte Brontë in light of feminist theology
(University of St Andrews, 2017-06-20) - ThesisThis thesis seeks to show the ways in which Charlotte Brontë’s fiction anticipates the concerns of contemporary feminist theology. Whilst Charlotte Brontë’s novels have held a place of honor in feminist literary criticism ... -
Truth incarnate : story as sacrament in the mythopoeic thought and fiction of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien
(University of St Andrews, 2015-11-30) - ThesisThe thesis is organized as two sections of two chapters each: the first section establishes a theoretical framework of a broad and reinvigorated Christian sacramentality within which to situate the second—an investigation ... -
The sacred–secular distinction in music during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Austria and Bavaria
(University of St Andrews, 2015-06-23) - ThesisThis thesis explores the sacred–secular distinction in the musical life of Austria and Bavaria during the eighteenth and nineteenth century with particular focus on its legitimacy and feasibility. It examines the attempts ...