More Than A Pretty Face: Using Embodied Lutheran Theology to Evaluate Community-Building in Online Social Networks
The online social network phenomenon has forever changed the way we think about ourselves in relation to our neighbors. But do these massively popular networks actually build community? More Than a Pretty Face invites us to consider the present and future challenges of the Digital Age and offers resources from Lutheran theology, notably from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, that call into question many of the assumptions that support a disembodied understanding of community.   What remains is a genuine call for a vibrant theology of embodiment. By recognizing the distinctive features of physical communities, Christians can discern which digital social technologies embrace a view of humanity that necessarily includes the body. There is no need for either the polar extremes of  neo-Luddism or the uncritical embrace of all things digital. Rather, Christians are called to respond to needs of the community with empathy, intimacy, and physicality.
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More Than A Pretty Face: Using Embodied Lutheran Theology to Evaluate Community-Building in Online Social Networks
The online social network phenomenon has forever changed the way we think about ourselves in relation to our neighbors. But do these massively popular networks actually build community? More Than a Pretty Face invites us to consider the present and future challenges of the Digital Age and offers resources from Lutheran theology, notably from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, that call into question many of the assumptions that support a disembodied understanding of community.   What remains is a genuine call for a vibrant theology of embodiment. By recognizing the distinctive features of physical communities, Christians can discern which digital social technologies embrace a view of humanity that necessarily includes the body. There is no need for either the polar extremes of  neo-Luddism or the uncritical embrace of all things digital. Rather, Christians are called to respond to needs of the community with empathy, intimacy, and physicality.
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More Than A Pretty Face: Using Embodied Lutheran Theology to Evaluate Community-Building in Online Social Networks

More Than A Pretty Face: Using Embodied Lutheran Theology to Evaluate Community-Building in Online Social Networks

by Franz Arnold
More Than A Pretty Face: Using Embodied Lutheran Theology to Evaluate Community-Building in Online Social Networks

More Than A Pretty Face: Using Embodied Lutheran Theology to Evaluate Community-Building in Online Social Networks

by Franz Arnold

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Overview

The online social network phenomenon has forever changed the way we think about ourselves in relation to our neighbors. But do these massively popular networks actually build community? More Than a Pretty Face invites us to consider the present and future challenges of the Digital Age and offers resources from Lutheran theology, notably from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, that call into question many of the assumptions that support a disembodied understanding of community.   What remains is a genuine call for a vibrant theology of embodiment. By recognizing the distinctive features of physical communities, Christians can discern which digital social technologies embrace a view of humanity that necessarily includes the body. There is no need for either the polar extremes of  neo-Luddism or the uncritical embrace of all things digital. Rather, Christians are called to respond to needs of the community with empathy, intimacy, and physicality.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781532613708
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date: 07/18/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Joel Oesch is Associate Professor of Theology and Director of Graduate Studies in Theology at Concordia University Irvine.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Abbreviations viii

1 Why Does the Body Matter at AIP 1

2 The Case for an Embodied Theology 28

3 Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Embodied Community 69

4 Living Embodied in the Age of Excarnation 109

5 Looking for Community in Virtual Spaces 125

6 Looking Toward the Singularity 185

Bibliography 199

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