A Boat with New Nets: A Reflection on Embodied Transcendence In God's Image: An Anthropology of the Spirit, Michael Welker, Eerdmans, 2021 (ISBN 978-0-8028-7874-8), xii + 155 pp., pb 29 Marriage, Family and the Church: A Boat with New Nets, Pia Matthews, Gracewing, 2022 (ISBN 978-0-85244-974-5), xvi + 484 pp., pb £25 Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age, Felicia Wu Song, IVP, 2021 (ISBN 978-0-8308-5113-3), xii + 220 pp., pb 24 Believing in Bits: Digital Media and the Supernatural, Simone Natale, and Diana W. Pasulka (eds), Oxford University Press, 2020 (ISBN 978-0-19-094999-0), xiv + 250 pp., pb £22.99
As divergent as they seem to be, In God's Image; Marriage, Family and the Church; Restless Devices; and, Believing in Bits all have several overlapping themes that center on the embodied nature of the imago Dei. Each presents a set of questions that prompt consideration of how ‘technology’ infl...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2023
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Reviews in religion and theology
Year: 2023, Volume: 30, Issue: 3, Pages: 121-126 |
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B Church B Imago Dei B Technology B Personalism B Liturgy B Family |
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| Summary: | As divergent as they seem to be, In God's Image; Marriage, Family and the Church; Restless Devices; and, Believing in Bits all have several overlapping themes that center on the embodied nature of the imago Dei. Each presents a set of questions that prompt consideration of how ‘technology’ influences, shapes, and informs our embodied practice of religion. In God's Image and Marriage, Family and the Church give us a broad vision of the human that helps situate and theologically engage the themes, concerns, and developing challenges in Restless Devices and Believing in Bits. The latter two gesture in the direction that aid us in thinking about the liturgical nature of what it means to be human. In God's Image offers a sampling of different proposals primarily from a Protestant perspective that open up questions for how one ought to unify the themes and teleological nature of the body. Through a brief interaction with all four works, I gesture toward Marriage, Family and the Church as providing A Boat with New Nets that might just help us to navigate our changing world of technological advancement. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9418 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Reviews in religion and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/rirt.14233 |