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A survey of the twenty-eight references to dance in the Bible indicate that dance was essentially a social celebration of special events, such as a military victory, a religious festival, or a family reunion. The dances were either processional, encircling, or ecstatic. They were done mostly by women and children.
May 1, 2016 · The Bible text was examined and verses relating to dance were studied closely. This research deals with biblical verses relating to dance and evaluates the effect of dance on various health ...
instance, dance routines and methods of mime have been implemented to retell the story of Christ’s crucifixion as well as the virgin birth of Christ. Other forms of liturgical dance are more obscure, intending to “project the human spirit” through arm movements, various postures and facial expressions.
References to dance as a viable expression of worship have been noted in the Bible, such as in the Acts of John, chapters 94-102, which describe an empyrean space that opens itself “when we enter in the round dance of the disciples, led by Christ” as written by Pulver (Campbell 160).
- Selena Madden
- 2021
Within this work I seek to answer the questions of how dance is a source of theology, why a pneumatology of the body is significant, and how dance provides a framework for a pneumatology of the body. The creation of a pneumatology of the body is a rooting or re-membering of the Spirit and our own spirit in incarnational—skin and bones—reality that includes us in Trinitarian perichoresis.
Is it fair to equate the concept of dance in Bible times with the concept of dance today? When modern readers read the 26 occurrences of the English word dance, we almost automatically think of dance in a modern setting. That is a faulty method of interpretation. In the Bible the term meant leap, twirl, or whirl, not dance as we think of it ...
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Jan 20, 2021 · This paper will discuss the use of dance and other expressive gestures in Christian worship based on the story of David jumping and dancing (2 Sam 6: 14-16). The method used in this paper is the ...
