A Media Ecology of Theology: Communicating Faith Throughout the Christian Tradition Soukup Paul A.
In the Christian tradition, the faithful do theology--defined in Anselm's phrase as "faith seeking understanding"--in different media. The contemporary emphasis on written or academic theology…
Specifikacia A Media Ecology of Theology: Communicating Faith Throughout the Christian Tradition Soukup Paul A.
In the Christian tradition, the faithful do theology--defined in Anselm's phrase as "faith seeking understanding"--in different media. The contemporary emphasis on written or academic theology obscures the long history in which people sought to understand and express their faith by way of various outlets and formats. Because historical Christianity has embraced every communication medium, the media ecology approach to communication study offers a powerful tool to examine that history and the affordances of the media for theological expression. Just so, the history of theology offers a variety of test cases to illustrate media ecology at work.In A Media Ecology of Theology Paul Soukup invites us to explore the interaction between communication media, broadly defined, and the Christian theological heritage. Soukup follows a media ecology methodology, moving from a