Buch, Englisch, 207 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 311 g
Reihe: James Clarke
Toward a Theology of the Internet
Buch, Englisch, 207 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 311 g
Reihe: James Clarke
ISBN: 978-0-227-17730-3
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
A timely and wide-ranging collection of essays exploring the theological implications of the internet and Christian engagement with digital media.
The topic of the internet is vastly underrepresented in the current literature on the intersection of technology and theology. Studies on internet theology are certainly viewed as a topic of ‘special interest’, relevant – it might be thought – only to eccentric academics and tech geeks.
The HTML of Cruciform Love contends, however, that there is no topic more pertinent to our daily walk as contemporary followers of Jesus Christ than the theological implications of the internet. These twelve essays, though standalone pieces, also work together to investigate the themes of community and character formation in the digital realm. A host of interrelated sub-themes are represented, including the application of patristic theology to contemporary internet praxis, a demonology of the internet, and virtue ethics in cyberspace, alongside studies that consider the implications of internet technology on aesthetics, personhood, and the self. Together, the chapters work toward a collaborative, constructive, cruciform theology of the internet, which is more than a supplementary component to our personal lives; rather, it is a medium of vital connection for the digital communion of the saints through the HTML of cruciform love.
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Weitere Infos & Material
List of Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Toward a Theology of the Internet / John Frederick
1. The Discipline of the Eyes: Reflections on Visual Culture, Ancient and Modern / Ben Myers and Scott Stephens
2. Interface Is Reality / Kutter Callaway
3. Cyber-Genesis of the Digital Self / John Frederick
4. The Bible Is Not a Database / T.C. Moore
5. See Me, Hear Me, Praise Me: An Internet for More than Vainglory / Chad Bogosian
6. A Theology of Work for a Virtual Age / Scott B. Rae
7. Mark’s Jesus and the Internet: Exegetical Reflections on Authority, Identity, and Community / Jen Gilbertson
8. The Solomonic Temple: Technology and Theology / Walter Kim
9. The Internet Gaze / Eric Stoddart
10. Virtual Counterfeit of the Infinite: Emmanuel Levinas and the Temptation of Temptation / Donald Wallenfang
11. The Church and Electronic Media – Foundational Issues: Our Addiction to Efficiency and the Myth of Neutrality / Mark D. Baker
12. Crafting or Bearing the Present: Reflections on the Character of Christian Community / Clark Elliston
Subject Index
Author Index
Ancient Document Index
