Living the eighth day online: liturgies, sacramental life, and building human relationships
Online human relationships can exacerbate some of the worst of our tendencies toward each other, including deception, selfishness, apathy and disembodiment, and sexual harassment. Yet Christians can also bring their prayer practices online, as ways of bringing God’s new creation (known in Christian...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2020]
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Theology & sexuality
Year: 2020, Volume: 26, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 123-139 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Online media
/ Prayer
/ Liturgy
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality RC Liturgy ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
| Further subjects: | B
online relationships
B digital theology B online sacraments B Liturgical Theology |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Summary: | Online human relationships can exacerbate some of the worst of our tendencies toward each other, including deception, selfishness, apathy and disembodiment, and sexual harassment. Yet Christians can also bring their prayer practices online, as ways of bringing God’s new creation (known in Christian tradition as the Eighth Day) to the forefront. Through examination of three distinctive online prayer practices, combined with discussion of liturgical and sacramental theologies, this article shows that prayer online also holds out possibilities of reconciliation and justice as potential responses to negative human relationship tendencies. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5170 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology & sexuality
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2020.1814507 |