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Adapatation Of The Religious Dance And Similar Physical Movements In The Indigenous Church, Manfred Berndt
Adapatation Of The Religious Dance And Similar Physical Movements In The Indigenous Church, Manfred Berndt
Master of Sacred Theology Thesis
This is just one example of a cultural problem that raises a painful question for the Western Christian: “Why is it that, while the Church, particularly in her worship, has done so much to use God's gifts of music, art, and. drama, it has almost completely ignored or condemned the one art that combines these three--the dance?" Can the dance be a vehicle to glorify God, not merely in recreation, but also in worship? It is to this problem that this study addresses itself. It intends to examine the reverent and irreverent use of the dance in the history of …