A Theology for a Mediated God: How Media Shapes Our Notions About Divinity [Hardcover]

A Theology for a Mediated God introduces a new way to examine the shaping effects of media on our notions of God and divinity. In contrast to more conventional social-scientific methodologies and conversations about the relationship between religion and media, Dennis Ford argues that the characteristics we ascribe to a medium can be extended and applied metaphorically to the characteristics we ascribe to Godjust as earlier generations attempted to comprehend God through the metaphors of father, shepherd, or mother. As a result, his work both challenges and bridges the gap between students of religion and media, and theology.

Preface : Why Theology? 1. Introduction: God, Mediation, and Theology 2. God and the Mediation of Orality 3. God and the Mediation of Literacy 4. God and the Mediation of the Figurative Image 5. God and the Mediation of the Body 6. God and the Mediation of Ones and Zeros 7. Conclusion: From Medium to Metaphor Index

A Theology for a Mediated God introduces a new way to examine the shaping effects of media on our notions of God and divinity. In contrast to more conventional social-scientific methodologies and conversations about the relationship between religion and media, Dennis Ford argues that the characteristics we ascribe to a medium can be extended and applied metaphorically to the characteristics we ascribe to Godjust as earlier generations attempted to comprehend God through the metaphors of father, shepherd, or mother. As a result, his work both challenges and bridges the gap between students of religion and media, and theology.

Ford's A Theology for a Mediated God is a well written, carefully constructed, and thoughtfully argued volume&.[He reflects] on how different media (speech/sound, writing, the visual, the body, and the digital) encourage particular ways of thinking about God and demonstrating the ways that particullC‘