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Description

In Critical Thinking and the Bible in the Age of New Media, Charles Ess collects contemporary scholarship to address the question: What does critical thinking about the Bible mean as the Bible is "transmediated" from print to electronic formats? This volume, the first of its kind, is made up of contributions originally developed for a conference sponsored by the American Bible Society. Ess provides a collection grounded in a wide diversity of religious traditions and academic disciplines-philosophy, biblical studies, theology, feminism, aesthetics, communication theory, and media studies. His introduction summarizes the individual chapters and develops their broader significance for contemporary debates regarding media, postmodernism, and the possible relationships between faith and reason

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Critical Thinking, Biblical Texts, and Faith and Reason in the Age of New Media
Chapter 2 Critical Thinking: Keynote Address: Reasoned Judgment and Revelation: The Relation of Critical Thinking and Bible Study
Chapter 3 Critical Thinking Within Biblical Texts: Bible Reading and Critical Thinking; Critical Thinking for Ordinary Believers
Chapter 4 Three Contemporary Perspectives on Critical Thinking and the Bible: Let the Reader Understand: Biblically Disciplined Thought in Light of the Interrogative Model of Reasoning; Critical Thinking in the Black Church; Women's Feminist Critical Thinking
Chapter 5 Postmodern Perspectives: Reading Scripture as Critical-thinking Christians in a Postmodern Era; Mcluhan and a Critical Electronic Ethos: Contexts in Collision or Harmony; Hearing the Hum in a Wired World: Preliminary Musings on Virtual Reality and E
Chapter 6 Voices of Caution: Images Have Consequences: The Impact of the Visual on the Word; Reading and Critical Thinking: Pentecostal Traditions vis-á-vis New Media
Chapter 7 Middle Grounds: Bible Study, Critical Thinking and Post-Critical Thought: Cultural Considerations; Bible Reading between History and Industry; Prayer and the Internet
Chapter 8 Contributors
Chapter 9 Index

Product details

Published Aug 18 2004
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 348
ISBN 9780761828624
Imprint University Press of America
Dimensions 9 x 7 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Charles M. Ess

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Charles Ess

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Peter Facione

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Byron Eubanks

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Susan

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Jim Bachman

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Isaac Mwase

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Jim Voelz

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Donald Colhour

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Terry Lindvall

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Michael Palmer

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Phil Mullins

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Eep Talstra

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Kate Lindemann

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