Critical thinking and the Bible in the age of new media / edited by Charles M. Ess.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ess, Charles, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Study and teaching.

Bible.

Critical thinking.

Mass media in religion.

Physical Description:

vi, 344 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Dallas : University Press of America, [2004]

Summary:

In Critical Thinking and the Bible in the Age of New Media, Charles Ess collects contemporary scholarship to address the question, what does critical thinking about the Bible mean as the Bible is 'transmediated' from print to electronic formats?

Contents:

Critical Thinking and the Bible in the Age of New Media / Charles Ess 3

Critical Thinking: Keynote Address 57

1 Reasoned Judgment and Revelation: The Relation of Critical Thinking and Bible Study / Peter Facione 59

Critical Thinking within Biblical Texts 75

2 Bible Reading AND Critical Thinking / Christof Hardmeier 77

3 A Biblical Defense of Critical Thinking / Byron Eubanks 95

Three Contemporary Perspectives on Critical Thinking and the Bible 111

4 Let the Reader Understand: Biblically Disciplined Thought in Light of the Interrogative Model of Reasoning / Susan, Jim Bachman 113

5 Critical Thinking and the Black Church / Isaac M. T. Mwase 131

6 Lay Women's Feminist Critical Thinking about the Bible / Elizabeth Dodson Gray 149

Postmodern Perspectives 161

7 Reading Scripture as Critical-Thinking Christians in the Post-Modern Era / Jim Voelz 163

8 McLuhan and a Critical Electronic Ethos: Contexts in Collision or Harmony? / Donald Colhour 187

9 Hearing the Hum in a Wired World: Preliminary Musings on Virtual Reality and Evangelical Education / Ben Witherington 199

Voices of Caution 211

10 Images Have Consequences: Preliminary Reflections on the Impact of the Visual on the Word / Terry Lindvall 213

11 Scripture Study in the Age of the New Media / Michael Palmer 237

Middle Grounds 267

12 Bible Study, Critical Thinking, and Post-Critical Thought: Cultural Considerations / Phil Mullins 269

13 On Scrolls and Screens: Bible Reading between History and Industry / Eep Talstra 291

14 Prayer and the Internet / Kate Lindemann 311.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0761828621

076182863X

OCLC:

56823508