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Aquinas on the Web? : Doing Theology in an Internet Age.
The ""problem"" of the internet has plagued theologians for the past decade: some have claimed it as ""gnostic"" and evil because it denies the Christian doctrine of the incarnation and lacks serious engagement with others. Some have viewed the internet as pre...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover-Page; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; 1 Can Thomas tweet? Theology about the internet; Theology about the internet: The good, the bad, and the tool; The internet as culture; Theology and the internet as practices; The caveat ... ; 2 Idolatry: On whether the internet is a creature created by God; The internet conversation: Is God online?; Our human "Gods" and the internet; Beauty and truth; God and God's Creature, the Internet; 3 Theological cyborgology in Aquinas on the Web?; The internet conversation: Internet fasts and Avatar; Theological anthropology?
- Humans and their (mere) tools?Becoming cyborgs; Cyborg-human relationships; Can cyborg be saved?; 4 Empowering power: Scripture, authority, and sources in Web 2.0 theology; The internet conversation: A power that deceives?; The power of the internet; Conclusion; 5 Asking "whether an internet church can exist?" is asking the wrong question; Introduction; The internet church as the next new thing ... ; Online Christian traditions; Longing for and belonging to Christian community; What kind of community ought we to be?; 6 Theology of the mean: The internet and the good life?
- The internet conversation: Winning or faithfulness?Living "the good life" online; To have the "good life" online, you need to be good offline-and vice versa; The good life in a technological age ... ; Conclusions: "The new and the old"-practicing internet theology; Read in diverse ways; Practice imagination; Turn off, purposefully; Be part of Christian community, online and offline; Practice stability in community; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.