"Wie kann Theologie zu Technik und KI beitragen? Der Technikdiskurs ist aufgeladen mit religiösen Motiven, und Technologien wie Roboter fordern die Theologie, z. B. das Menschenbild, die Ethik und die religiöse Praxis, neu heraus. Der Sammelband erforscht aus theologischer Perspektive die drängen
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den Themen unserer Zeit. Dazu begibt sich die Theologie in Dialog mit den Technikwissenschaften. Untersucht werden die Veränderungen des Menschenbildes durch Roboter, Religiöse Roboter, Optimierung des Körpers, medizinische Technologien, Autoregulative Waffensysteme und wie die Theologie durch die Technologisierung transformiert wird." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"In at least some cases, visual images can challenge normative and normalized ways of grasping the world and prompt their viewers to see differently-and even bring people together. Seeing and Believing marshals religious resources to recast the significance of digital images in the struggle for soci
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al justice. Ellen T. Armour examines what distinguishes digital photography from its analogue predecessor and places the circulation of digital images in the broader context of virtual visual cultures. She explores the challenges and opportunities that visually saturated social media landscapes present for users and organizers. Despite the power of digital platforms and algorithms, possibilities for disruption and resistance emerge from how people engage with these systems. Armour offers ways of seeing drawn from Christianity and found in other religious traditions to help us break with entrenched habits and rethink how we engage with the images that grab our attention. Developing theological perspectives on the power and peril of photography and technology, Seeing and Believing provides suggestions for navigating the new media landscape that can spark what Armour calls "photographic insurrection." (Publisher description)
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"Urgidos por los gritos de las comunidades afectadas por la minería y los gemidos de la madre naturaleza, en comunión con el llamado del papa Francisco y del CELAM, la Agencia de Cooperación Katholische Jungschar (DKA) y la Red Iglesias y Minería (IyM) animamos un espacio ecuménico para interca
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mbiar reflexiones en torno a las Teologías, Ecologías y Extractivismos. En este espacio ecuménico de reflexión, contamos con la participación de teólogos y teólogas de América Latina, Europa y EUA. Dispuestosas a escuchar, dialogar, aprender y compartir sus saberes, experiencias. Las reflexiones colectivas, ayudaron también a fundamentar teológicamente la Campaña de Desinversión en Minería, animada por IyM y el Proyecto Oro e Iglesia, impulsada por DKA. Metodológicamente este Grupo de Reflexión se organizó en tres Ejes Temáticos: 1) Perspectiva ética teológica: en el que buscamos iluminar las prácticas del modelo político y económico extractivista que se ha establecido, en la modernidad, como dogma para el crecimiento. Este modelo que se sustenta en una financiarización utilitaria de la naturaleza para salvaguardar el capital especulativo mediante el control de la Madre Tierra y del futuro [...] 2) Teología litúrgica: diálogos abiertos, sobre la Liturgia y la opción evangélica preferencial por los pobres ¿cómo entender la utilización del oro, la plata y los diamantes en nuestras personas y particularmente en nuestras Iglesias? [...] 3) Teología Poscolonial: reflexionó la sobreexplotación de la naturaleza, con la consiguiente devastación territorial por parte de la minería y las empresas multinacionales. Hemos avanzado en actualizar y proponer una versión “moderna” del colonialismo: asumimos que para compartir “un principio de esperanza” post extractivista, es urgente descolonizar nuestro pensamiento, el imaginario y los poderes/saberes que actualmente tenemos." (Presentación, página 2-4)
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"The contemporary emphasis on written or academic theology obscures the long history in which people sought to understand and express their faith by way of various outlets and formats. Because historical Christianity has embraced every communication medium, the media ecology approach to communicatio
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n study offers a powerful tool to examine that history and the affordances of the media for theological expression. Just so, the history of theology offers a variety of test cases to illustrate media ecology at work. In A Media Ecology of Theology Paul Soukup invites us to explore the interaction between communication media, broadly defined, and the Christian theological heritage. Soukup follows a media ecology methodology, moving from a description of a communication medium to an examination of its affordances to a discussion of how those affordances shape the faith-seeking-understanding practiced in each. He shows that, in some cases, different media support different theological conclusions, and different theological stances shape media. The case studies range from the first to the twenty-first centuries, with a limitation imposed by selection, language, and culture." (Publisher description)
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"The collection of critiques advances a powerful question that must be asked if we are to gain a broader and deeper understanding of humanity. The phenomenon of Divine-human communication (DHC) is framed as an area of scholarship replete with heurism, not limiting itself to Judeo-Christian belief sy
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stems. Instead, the authors individually and collectively address the ideological diversity in existent DHC and the robust research that has yet to be explored in the discipline. The chapters beautifully tie together and articulate the necessity of theistic communication research, stressing the intersectional identities of theist-scholars in their study of phenomena where religious ideologies are activated. As a religious communication scholar who also identifies as a theist-scholar, I found every chapter empowering, as they encourage the field to reconsider its positionality towards an area of scholarship that attempts to 'measure the immeasurable.' God Talk debunks the broad misconception that theist-scholars are attempting to advance a religious campaign of indoctrination. Moreover, the book provides a very strong foundation upon which others can stand as they interrogate communication phenomena where one’s religious identity and relationship and communication with God/Creator/Higher Power are intertwined in theoretical yet practical ways." (Tina M. Harris, Endowed Chair of Race, Media, and Cultural Literacy, Louisiana State University)
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"The intersection of media with theology is reciprocating: media boosts theology in its functions to inform, connect and educate; theology humbles the globalizing media with a reminder – media is in mediation but not in domination. Media and theology thus intersect at mediating (negotiating, inter
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ceding, resisting, protesting) and they should avoid the temptation to colonize. The essays are presented in two overlapping clusters: Mediascapes (intersection of media and a selection of land- and sea-scapes) and Mediations (implications of mediating theology for interrogating hegemonies). The topics addressed include social media and #tag cultures, the fourth industrial revolution and artificial intelligence, homiletics, social resistance, Palestine, Latin America, climate change, and Covid-19." (Publisher description)
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"Love and Communication is an intriguing philosophical and religious inquiry into the meaning of "talk" - and ultimately the meaning of "being human." Taking an historical approach, Paddy Scannell argues that the fundamental media of communication are (and always have been) talk and writing. Far fro
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m being made redundant by twentieth-century new media (radio and television), these old media laid the foundation for today's technologies (AI and algorithms, for instance). Emphasizing these linkages, Scannell makes the case for recognizing what a religious sensibility might reveal about these technologies and the fundamental differences between a humanmade world and a world that is beyond our grasp. Drawing on the pioneering work of John Durham Peters, the book proposes that communication and love go together, which can be understood in two ways: as a human accomplishment, or a divine gift. Ultimately, the essential conundrum of today is highlighted: do we wish to remain in a human-human world, or are we in the early stages of a human-machine world, and a world defined by machine-machine interactions?" (Back cover)
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"Les écrivains bibliques ont coutume de recourir au symbolisme pour assurer que la saisie de leur message soit facilitée. En se focalisant en particulier sur le quatrième évangile du Nouveau Testament, l'auteur lève le voile sur le caractère énigmatique de la christologie johannique qui para
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t déconcertante pour le lecteur non averti à cause du caractère imagé que revêtent les appellations de Jésus : comme langage parabolique et allégorique, comme métaphore et symbole. Cette étude montre que le symbolisme n'est pas une formulation conceptuelle obscure et incomprise du public, mais au contraire que les théologiens devraient dans leurs discours de chaque jour être en mesure de trouver des formulations symboliques, afin de traduire l'exactitude de la vérité éthique et religieuse à transmettre. Bien compris ce langage est un outil d'enseignement fidèle à la méthode de transmission biblique et un véhicule sémantique d'une efficacité pédagogique inégalée." (Résumé)
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"The book presents all final statements of FABC communication meetings from 1996 to 2007, including the annual meetings of Asian communication bishops (Bishops' Meet), all six BISCOMs (Bishops' Institutes for Social Communication), and special gathering of experts (Roundtables) on Communication Rese
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arch, Communication and Evangelization, and Social Communication in Religious Traditions of Asia. This new approach, backed up by known Theologians is at the center of a respective course in the Pastoral Communication Program of the Pontifical University of Santo Tomas, Manila where the publication serves as a textbook." (Publisher description)
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"This chapter examines the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) theology as the implicit background to Robert White's studies on development communication. We will then examine White's influence on the Center for Communication, Media and Society's graduate program in development communication." (Page
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"Already during the preparation for the Second Vatican Council a commission on “modern means for the apostolate” was created (November 1959!). The final Communications Commission produced a document with 114 paragraphs, which was discussed in the first session of the Council and approved in the
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plenary on November 27, 1962, with 2.138 ‘Yes’ votes out of a total of 2.160. The assembly stated that communication is a proper and important subject for a council. It was proposed, however, that the text should be shortened to the essentials for pastoral ministry and another, more professional document published later, which was done in 1971 with the Pastoral Instruction Communio et Progressio. The shortened and revised version of Inter Mirifica was approved, in spite of some protests about the minimalistic approach and lack of sufficient theology of this version, and then published together with the liturgy document on December 4,1963. Because Inter Mirifica was one of the first two documents of the Council it could not benefit from later considerations and stayed somewhat at the fringes of the conciliar process. Considering the situation today the document presents some special challenges like developing the concept of Social Communication it introduced to its full meaning; working on a proper Communication Theology (not Theology of Communication!); developing a proper communication disposition (instead of only skills!); developing a proper spirituality-based communication approach which integrates all activities; going from “media” to “means” and thus respond also to the modern challenges of Internet and social networks." (Abstract)
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"On June 3, 1971, a new document on social communication was presented by Gordon G. Cardinal Gray (Edinburgh) to journalists at the Vatican Press Hall. The document was the pastoral instruction for social communication Communio et Progressio, officially dated May 23, 1971. The instruction was demand
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ed by the Vatican II Decree on Social Communication, Inter Mirifica (1963), saying: “The Council expressly directs the Commission of the Holy See to publish a Pastoral Instruction, with the help of experts from various countries to ensure that all principles and rules of the Council on the means of social communication be put into effect” (no. 23). The background to this is the fact that the Council Fathers were originally presented with a document of 114 paragraphs which they felt would go beyond their own knowledge of the field. They, therefore, proposed a document with the essentials – the now Inter Mirifica decree – with only 24 paragraphs to be extended for practical use through a Pastoral Instruction and to be elaborated by the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications with the help of experts. The new document, however, could only be published some seven years after Inter Mirifica. This long interval can be interpreted as an indication of a serious and thorough production process participated in especially by professional Catholic media organizations together with additional experts." (Page 1)
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"God's self-communication is the source of human life and human communication. The divine self-communication shows itself in the Trinity, the revelation, the Incarnation, and embodied in the Church is the grammar of communication theology. Such a theology should be a formation program in Church's th
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eological institutes, especially in the priestly formation. Further, communication theology leads to deepening the dimensions of communication in all different theological disciplines in order to fecundate the respective fields of those disciplines. It helps Christian communicators to form dispositions in communicating with other people from different social backgrounds, cultures and religions. Based on God's communication, Christians can develop a proper attitude in the process of social communication in order to contribute to the improvement and unity of human society (CeP, no. 1). It gives enlightening insights to those who concern themselves with human social communication. In turn, studying communication theology, one will be led to a commimicative exchange with other sciences like anthropology, culturology, psychology, sociology, etc. In this way, the Church can effectively face the challenges and problems of social communication in the modem world of today, especially when she will give orientation and direction to young people who are the most affected persons in living under the influence of modem communication. In Christian understanding one can say: we may miss communicate, but we cannot not commimicate because human beings are created by a communicating God, in His image and likeness (Gen. 1:26). Communication must happen for the sake of human unity among themselves and with God, their constantly communicating God." (Conclusion, page 35-36)
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"This textbook is a wide-ranging introduction to the theology of communication, written by the executive secretary of the Social Communications Commission of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI). The primary aim is to help develop the capacity to understand social communication from the p
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erspective of pastoral leadership. Communication is viewed from various theological and sociological disciplines, ranging from 'Jesus Christ the communicator' or 'liturgy as communication' to 'God, media and popular culture' and 'narrative theology'. The book emphasises pastoral communication and includes sessions on preaching, evolving effective strategies and plans, networking and integrating communications into one’s ministry. It forms part of the 'Communications for Pastoral Leadership' formation programme of CBCI." (CAMECO Update 1-2011)
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