Virtual communion: theology of the internet and the Catholic imagination
Date of Award
2016
Degree Name
Ph.D. in Theology
Department
Department of Religious Studies
Advisor/Chair
Advisor: Vincent Jude Miller
Abstract
As virtual space, the internet can be understood theologically through the doctrinal loci of the incarnation and the church. These two doctrines pervade both scholarly and ecclesial discussions of technology and the internet to date, and remain the central doctrinal categories with which theologians should assess internet culture. In its broader sacramental imagination and its ecclesiology, the church relies on virtual space insofar as it relies on the productive tension between presence and absence. Furthermore, 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.
Keywords
Catholic Church Doctrines, Internet Religious aspects Catholic Church, Internet, Theology, Religion, Multimedia Communications, religious studies, media studies, internet, internet studies, sacrament, ecclesiology
Rights Statement
Copyright © 2016, author
Recommended Citation
Schmidt, Katherine G., "Virtual communion: theology of the internet and the Catholic imagination" (2016). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 1217.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/graduate_theses/1217
