Mediating faith
Subtitle: faith formation in a trans-media era
By: Clint Schnekloth ; foreword by William H. Willimon
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9781451472295; 9781451479713
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Spiritual formation; Social media; Christianity; Mass media
Description: The church struggles with media. 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 20 years ago. Thus the importance of understanding media for the church has never been greater. 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 he offers an evaluation and theological response to the trans-media era that highlights its potential to transform our work and world.Far from frightening, Schnekloth highlights the opportunities and the riches of this fascinating time.
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.
Table of contents: title: Examining trans-media effects; title: Listening to the quasi-Luddites' legitimate laments; title: The procedural rhetoric of the catechumenate; title: The effects of MMORPG's procedural rhetoric; title: More prosaic media forms and formation; title: On pneumatology and material culture; title: Beauty, eschatology, sociality: the way forward.