Mediating faith : faith formation in a trans-media era / Clint Schnekloth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schnekloth, Clint.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spiritual formation.

Social media--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Social media.

Mass media--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

xv, 135 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2014]

Summary:

From Sermon Preparation to Second Life? Whether it is a denomination negotiating the 24-hour news cycle or a church evaluating how Facebook or online games are influencing the youth group, media is raising questions and placing demands on communities of faith in ways that could not have been imagined just twenty years ago. In Mediating Faith, church leaders of all kinds will find Clint Schnekloth an engaging and insightful guide to this new and sometimes wondrous world. In doing so, Schnekloth offers an evaluation and theological response to the trans-media era that highlights its potential to transform our work and world. Book jacket.

Contents:

Foreword / Will Willimon

Introduction

Examining trans-media effects

Listening to the quasi-Luddites' legitimate laments

The procedural rhetoric of the catechumenate

The effects of MMORPG's procedural rhetoric

More prosaic media forms and formation

On pneumatology and material culture

Beauty, eschatology, sociality: the way forward

Summary and conclusion.

Notes:

Revision of author's thesis (D. Min.)--Fuller Theological Seminary, 2013 under title After the book : faith formation in a transmedia culture.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-132) and index.

ISBN:

9781451472295

1451472293

OCLC:

858900451