the Media of God and the Digital Age Byers, Andrew. creator text Electronic books. xx Havertown The Lutterworth Press 2014 monographic eng

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1 online resource (247 pages) 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. 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. Technology Religious aspects Christianity Digital communications Religious aspects Christianity Mass media Religious aspects Christianity Internet Religious aspects Christianity Technology Influence Digital communications Influence Mass media Influence Internet Influence Christianity and culture RELIGION Christian Ministry Missions RELIGION / Christian Theology / General BS649.E63 .B384 2014 266.00285 9780718842642 0718842642 22573/ctt1cg58tr JSTOR http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=836610 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=836610 EBLCP 140830 20200709060220.0 ocn889675713 eng