supplemental material

I’ve enclosed a second gathering that Moody wrote about in her book, as well as a link to the book itself.

Reflection

Taking place in Belfast as part of my Wake festival, this gathering occurred in the hull of a barge that was moored on the river Lagan. The event itself was aimed at helping participants confront their finitude. By doing this within the framework of a liturgical gathering, we sought to help people experience how this confrontation with the ultimate lack is a theological vocation. More than this, the event was structured in a such a way that people might discover how this confrontation with the fact that we are ‘being-towards-death’, can help us to embrace our lives and find freedom from the anxiety that arises from the denial of death.

Transformance Art: Wake

Katharine Sarah Moody is an academic who has engaged in deep and critical reflection on the work of Pyrotheology. In her excellent book Radical Theology and Emerging Christianity, she does this through an in-depth analysis of Radical Theology in relation to the Emerging Church Movement. In that book she not only offered insights into the theory of Pyrotheology, but observed, participated in, and reflected on, it's practice in ikon. As part of her critical reflection, she outlined two ikon services. What you are about to read was an event that took place at the Wake festival in Belfast, N.Ireland.