This chapter focuses on the concept of 'primacy of the body' in both theological and performance research. Having identified similarities and differences, in terms of praxis, between liberation theology and PaR (practice-as-research), McMillan uses the intersection of both to argue for the importance of praxis in generating new knowledge in both theological and performance studies. To demonstrate, McMillan unpacks the body-based artistic practices of Oreet Ashery's Dancing with Men (2003) and Adrienne Howells's Foot
Washing for the Sole (2009) and The 14 Stations of the Life and History of Adrian Howells (2008), concluding that we can reasonably locate a theological discourse 'through' and 'of the body in artistic methods of biblical reconstruction and biblio-social interventions.