[ecrea] new book: Cybertheology

Cybertheology
Thinking Christianity in the Era of the Internet
Antonio Spadaro, Translated by Maria Way




Fordham University Press. September, 2014.

Because the Internet has changed and is changing the ways in which we 
think and act, it must also be changing the ways in which we think 
Christianity and its theology. Cybertheology is the first book to 
explore this process from a Catholic point of view. Drawing on the 
theoretical work of authors such as Marshall McLuhan, Peter Levy, and 
Teilhard de Chardin, it questions how technologies redefine not only the 
ways in which we do things but also our being and therefore the way we 
perceive reality, the world, others, and God. “Does the digital 
revolution affect faith in any sense?” Spadaro asks. His answer is an 
emphatic Yes. But how, then, are we to live well in the age of the Internet?

Spadaro delves deeply into various dimensions of the impact of the Net 
on the Church and its organization, on our understanding of revelation, 
grace, liturgy, the sacraments, and other classical theological themes. 
He rightly points out that the digital environment is not merely an 
external instrument that facilitates human communication or a purely 
virtual world, but part of the daily experience of many people, a new 
“anthropological space” that is reshaping the way we think, know, and 
express ourselves. Naturally, this calls for a new understanding of 
faith so that it makes sense to people who live and work in the digital 
media environment. In developing the notion of cybertheology, Spadaro 
seeks to propose an intelligence of faith (intellectus fidei) in the era 
of the Internet.

The book’s chapters include reflections on man the decoder and the 
search engines of God, networked existence and the mystical body, hacker 
ethics and Christian vision, sacraments and “virtual presence,” and the 
theological challenges of collective intelligence.

Hb: ISBN: 9780823256990     $85.00     Pbk: ISBN: 9780823257003 $24,00






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