A Review of Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age by Samuel D. James
Last year, I came across an article in which Samuel D. James referred to the internet as an “immersive, epistemological habitat [that] has transformed the way humans read, learn, communicate, labor, shop, recreate, and even ‘worship.’” He went on to argue that, due to their very form, digital and online technologies are “powerful instruments of personal formation that push us in a certain spiritual and epistemological direction.” In his view, “No other technology is as disruptive to traditional forms of human activity.”
In Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age, James expands on this argument to explain how the digital...
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