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Start Date
18-9-2024 1:00 PM
End Date
18-9-2024 1:45 PM
Keywords
media, communications, pastors, christians, philosophers
Description
In this time of a vast change and multiplication of communications media, many pastors and Christians are asking what forms thereof are best for their God-given tasks and objectives. Those broaching these questions have assumed answers based on scientific data, subjective feeling, intuition and cultural norms. These are not to be discounted and indeed warrant further probing. However, a theologian’s task, properly speaking, is to discern what is inherent to the Lord’s command to write, speak or teach. Does this simply mean to communicate via whatever medium one chooses? Why is one form or material preferred to another? Why does the Lord engrave by His finger into stone on one occasion or command a prophet to write on a scroll? Why marks on human flesh? Indeed, before media existed, He spoke everything into being, and before establishing or employing an alphabet, He marked and erected physical objects to reveal, signify, or create various realities. How is material media inherent to the doctrinal content and its impact on the human psyche, as humans imitate, replicate and assert His word? And how is today’s culture collectively best attuned for reception and use of God’s Word? Considering certain philosophers and modern communications scholars, this presentation will make observations from Holy Scripture regarding such questions.
Submission Type
Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep
Submission Audience
Laity; Ministers; Scholars
Submission Cost
Free
More Dimensions in the Forma and Materia of the Word
In this time of a vast change and multiplication of communications media, many pastors and Christians are asking what forms thereof are best for their God-given tasks and objectives. Those broaching these questions have assumed answers based on scientific data, subjective feeling, intuition and cultural norms. These are not to be discounted and indeed warrant further probing. However, a theologian’s task, properly speaking, is to discern what is inherent to the Lord’s command to write, speak or teach. Does this simply mean to communicate via whatever medium one chooses? Why is one form or material preferred to another? Why does the Lord engrave by His finger into stone on one occasion or command a prophet to write on a scroll? Why marks on human flesh? Indeed, before media existed, He spoke everything into being, and before establishing or employing an alphabet, He marked and erected physical objects to reveal, signify, or create various realities. How is material media inherent to the doctrinal content and its impact on the human psyche, as humans imitate, replicate and assert His word? And how is today’s culture collectively best attuned for reception and use of God’s Word? Considering certain philosophers and modern communications scholars, this presentation will make observations from Holy Scripture regarding such questions.
