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By Antonio Spadaro,Maria Way

as the web has replaced and is altering the ways that we predict and act, it should also be altering the ways that we expect Christianity and its theology. Cybertheology is the 1st booklet to discover this approach from a Catholic perspective. Drawing at the theoretical paintings of authors similar to Marshall McLuhan, Peter Levy, and Teilhard de Chardin, it questions how applied sciences redefine not just the ways that we do issues but additionally our being and hence the way in which we understand truth, the realm, others, and God. “Does the electronic revolution impact religion in any sense?” Spadaro asks. His solution is an emphatic convinced. yet how, then, are we to stay good within the age of the Internet?

Spadaro delves deeply into numerous dimensions of the impression of the web at the Church and its association, on our realizing of revelation, grace, liturgy, the sacraments, and different classical theological issues. He rightly issues out that the electronic atmosphere isn't really in simple terms an exterior tool that allows human conversation or a basically digital international, yet a part of the day-by-day adventure of many folks, a brand new “anthropological house” that's reshaping the way in which we expect, comprehend, and exhibit ourselves. evidently, this demands a brand new realizing of religion in order that it is smart to those who dwell and paintings within the electronic media setting. In constructing the proposal of cybertheology, Spadaro seeks to suggest an intelligence of religion (intellectus fidei) within the period of the Internet.

The book’s chapters contain reflections on guy the decoder and the major search engines of God, networked life and the magical physique, hacker ethics and Christian imaginative and prescient, sacraments and “virtual presence,” and the theological demanding situations of collective intelligence.

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As the web has replaced and is altering the ways that we predict and act, it also needs to be altering the ways that we expect Christianity and its theology. Cybertheology is the 1st publication to discover this technique from a Catholic standpoint. Drawing at the theoretical paintings of authors equivalent to Marshall McLuhan, Peter Levy, and Teilhard de Chardin, it questions how applied sciences redefine not just the ways that we do issues but in addition our being and consequently the best way we understand fact, the realm, others, and God.

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