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Start Date
17-9-2024 2:15 PM
End Date
17-9-2024 3:00 PM
Keywords
technology, worship
Description
The application of Luther’s treatment of the abuse and abolishment of the bronze serpent in the Deutsche Messe as a kind of evaluation of early technology reveals that, despite the frenzied pace of technologically development in the 21st-century and its ability to rapidly degrade the continuity of society and culture, the misuse or misapplication of technology in the worship/the Divine Service is not a new challenge. The church is therefore free to draw upon the resources of its past in addressing this urgent problem for our present. Furthermore, the ability to identify and understand the technologies we employ in the Divine Service, as such, equips the church to answer Hermann Sasse’s call to primarily shape the Divine Service through the lens of dogma rather than history.
Submission Type
Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep
Submission Audience
Laity; Ministers; Scholars
People in this Resource (separated by commas)
Peter Berger, Os Guinness, Robert Kolb, Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman, Luciano Floridi, William Leah, Hermann Sasse, James Davidson Hunter
Submission Cost
Free
Evaluating the Use of Technology in Worship Through the Lens of Discipleship
The application of Luther’s treatment of the abuse and abolishment of the bronze serpent in the Deutsche Messe as a kind of evaluation of early technology reveals that, despite the frenzied pace of technologically development in the 21st-century and its ability to rapidly degrade the continuity of society and culture, the misuse or misapplication of technology in the worship/the Divine Service is not a new challenge. The church is therefore free to draw upon the resources of its past in addressing this urgent problem for our present. Furthermore, the ability to identify and understand the technologies we employ in the Divine Service, as such, equips the church to answer Hermann Sasse’s call to primarily shape the Divine Service through the lens of dogma rather than history.
