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TheoMedia [electronic resource] : the Media of God and the Digital Age.

By: Publication details: Havertown : The Lutterworth Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (247 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780718842642
  • 0718842642
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 266.00285 22
LOC classification:
  • BS649.E63 .B384 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Front cover; Half title; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part 1: Media Old and New; Chapter 1. Introduction In Search of a Script:Is the Bible Media Savvy?; TheoMedia Note 1 When Our Social Media Talk Back; Chapter 2. Contextual Gaps: Media Commercialized and Secularized; Chapter 3. Harbingers of Gloom and Glory: Christian Responses to Media Technology; TheoMedia Note 2 The Mediation of Sex and Violence; Chapter 4. Media Dark and Bright: Image Making by Fractured Image Bearers; TheoMedia Note 3 When Screens Are Oracles, Portals, Stages ... and well, "Screens."
Part 2: The Sights and S ounds of Israel's God: Multisensory TheoMedia in the Old TestamentChapter 5. Creation and Godsponsored "Media Events"; Chapter 6. Physical Structures, Visionary Encounters, and the Media of the Absurd; TheoMedia Note 4 Aaron and the Calf: Idolatry and Technological Determinism; Part 3: The Speech and Texts of Israel's God Verbal TheoMedia in the Old Testament; Chapter 7. Word Anxieties and Word Theology; TheoMedia Note 5 Online Theology: When God Is Blogged; Chapter 8. The Story of the Great King and the Lost Book: A Narrative Theology of God's Words.
TheoMedia Note 6 "Weighting" Media: The Shema in Our Twenty-first-Century HomesPart 4: Media Christology: Jesus, Media Legacies, and Focal Media Practices; Chapter 9. The Page-Splitting God Who Rips Sky and Veil: An Interlude; TheoMedia Note 7 Fading Away from the Scene and into the Church: Celebrity Culture, Christian Leaders, and John the Baptist; Chapter 10. Gospel and Incarnation: Jesus as the Ultimate TheoMedium; TheoMedia Note 8 Paul and Canonized Social Media: Two Lessons; Chapter 11. Crucifixion: Cross-visuality and the Eucharist.
Chapter 12. Resurrection & Ascension Word-media, Baptism, and Christ as MediatorTheoMedia Note 9 Word versus Image? Dismembering the Sensorium ... and Christ's Body?; Chapter 13. Christ's Return: Apocalyptic Media and the End of Mediation; Part 5: Conclusion; Chapter 14. The Spirit and the Bride: A Rough Theological Framework and "EcclesioMedia"; Bibliography; Back cover.
Summary: This book is a hermeneutical project in the church's wider efforts of trying to understand the technological mediascape of the twenty-first century. The purpose is not to offer a how-to guidebook to help churches incorporate communications technology into their worship and witness. Byers provides something more foundational, the beginnings of a way of constructing a theological frame of reference for understanding and appropriating media in the digital age and in the ages to come.
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Front cover; Half title; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part 1: Media Old and New; Chapter 1. Introduction In Search of a Script:Is the Bible Media Savvy?; TheoMedia Note 1 When Our Social Media Talk Back; Chapter 2. Contextual Gaps: Media Commercialized and Secularized; Chapter 3. Harbingers of Gloom and Glory: Christian Responses to Media Technology; TheoMedia Note 2 The Mediation of Sex and Violence; Chapter 4. Media Dark and Bright: Image Making by Fractured Image Bearers; TheoMedia Note 3 When Screens Are Oracles, Portals, Stages ... and well, "Screens."

Part 2: The Sights and S ounds of Israel's God: Multisensory TheoMedia in the Old TestamentChapter 5. Creation and Godsponsored "Media Events"; Chapter 6. Physical Structures, Visionary Encounters, and the Media of the Absurd; TheoMedia Note 4 Aaron and the Calf: Idolatry and Technological Determinism; Part 3: The Speech and Texts of Israel's God Verbal TheoMedia in the Old Testament; Chapter 7. Word Anxieties and Word Theology; TheoMedia Note 5 Online Theology: When God Is Blogged; Chapter 8. The Story of the Great King and the Lost Book: A Narrative Theology of God's Words.

TheoMedia Note 6 "Weighting" Media: The Shema in Our Twenty-first-Century HomesPart 4: Media Christology: Jesus, Media Legacies, and Focal Media Practices; Chapter 9. The Page-Splitting God Who Rips Sky and Veil: An Interlude; TheoMedia Note 7 Fading Away from the Scene and into the Church: Celebrity Culture, Christian Leaders, and John the Baptist; Chapter 10. Gospel and Incarnation: Jesus as the Ultimate TheoMedium; TheoMedia Note 8 Paul and Canonized Social Media: Two Lessons; Chapter 11. Crucifixion: Cross-visuality and the Eucharist.

Chapter 12. Resurrection & Ascension Word-media, Baptism, and Christ as MediatorTheoMedia Note 9 Word versus Image? Dismembering the Sensorium ... and Christ's Body?; Chapter 13. Christ's Return: Apocalyptic Media and the End of Mediation; Part 5: Conclusion; Chapter 14. The Spirit and the Bride: A Rough Theological Framework and "EcclesioMedia"; Bibliography; Back cover.

This book is a hermeneutical project in the church's wider efforts of trying to understand the technological mediascape of the twenty-first century. The purpose is not to offer a how-to guidebook to help churches incorporate communications technology into their worship and witness. Byers provides something more foundational, the beginnings of a way of constructing a theological frame of reference for understanding and appropriating media in the digital age and in the ages to come.

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