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Virtual Communion
Theology of the Internet and the Catholic Sacramental Imagination
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2020
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Virtual Communion: Theology of the Internet and the Catholic Sacramental Imagination provides a theological account of the internet from a Catholic perspective. It engages digital culture by providing a context for media and mediation within the Catholic tradition, specifically focusing on the ecclesiology and sacramentality of the church. Katherine G. Schmidt argues that the Catholic imagination is inherently consonant with the idea of the “virtual,” understood as the creative space between presence and absence, bringing the fields of media studies, internet studies, sociology, history, and theology together in order to give a theological account of the social realities of American Catholicism in light of digital culture. Overall, Schmidt argues that the social possibilities of the internet afford the church great opportunity for building a social context that allows the living out of Eucharistic logic learned in properly liturgical moments.
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2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-9787-0162-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-9787-0163-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
176
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 1 Theological Concerns No access Pages 1 - 24
Chapter 2 Ecclesial Perspectives on Media and Communications No access Pages 25 - 58
Chapter 3 Incarnation, Virtuality, and the Church No access Pages 59 - 70
Chapter 4 Virtuality and Sacramentality No access Pages 71 - 90
Chapter 5 The Social Dynamics of Life Online No access Pages 91 - 108
Chapter 6 The Suburbanization of American Catholic Life No access Pages 109 - 122
Chapter 7 The Standards of Communion No access Pages 123 - 162
