We are witnessing an unprecedented technological revolution. Every sphere of life from communications, work, economy, leisure, our homes, and health care is being digitised. These far-reaching changes demand careful consideration and discernment by churches participating in God's redemptive work around the world. Digitalization of society is radically changing both the methods and conditions of missions. For the first time, this book explores the implications of digitality for Missio Dei in thought and practice. Bringing together theologians, missiologists, computer scientists and practitioners, the book considers a diverse range of topics from evangelism to pastoral care, cyber pilgrimages to biases in algorithms, public theology to homiletics and inculturation to contextualization. Chapters include: Worship, Community and Missio Dei in a Digital Age - Maggie Dawn Finding Jesus Online: Digital Evangelism and the Future of Christian Mission - Steve Hollinghurst 'Digital Inculturation - Katherine G. Schmidt Mission: An adventure of the (digital) imagination - Jonny Baker Interactive technologies, Missio Dei and grassroots activism - Erkki Sutinen Strategic and Pastoral Reflections on Digital Media and Contemporary Spirituality - John Drane Public Faith, Shame, and China's Social Credit System - Alexander Chow

Bringing together theologians, missiologists, computer scientists and practitioners, Missio Dei in a Digital Age explores the implications of digitality for Missio Dei in thought and practice. This edited collection includes a diverse range of topics from evangelism to pastoral care, biases in algorithms and public theology to homiletics.

Slee, Nicola

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List of Contributors

1. Introduction: Missio Dei in a Digital Age

Part 1: Missiological Perspectives

2. Digital Inculturation

3. Mission: An Adventure of the (Digital) Imagination

4. Digital Theology: Practising Local Theology in an Age of Global Technology

Part 2: Missional Practices

5. Finding Jesus Online: Digital Evangelism and the Future of Christian Mission

6. The Sword of the Cherubim: Do Algorithms Inhibit Our Access to the Knowledge of God? 

7. Interactive Technologies, Missio Dei and Grassroots Activism

8. Amusing Ourselves to New Life? Strategic and Pastoral Reflections on Digital Media and Contemporary Spirituality

9. Worship, Community and Missio Dei in a Digital Age

10. Back to the Roots or Growing New Branches: Preaching, Orality and Mission in a Digital Age

Part 3: Public Theology and the Common Good

11. Vulnerable Children and Missio Dei in a Digital Sphere

12. Public Faith, Shame and China’s Social Credit System

Conclusion

13. Conclusion: Missio Dei in a Digital Age

If ever a period of time felt 'fractured' it is now. Whichever way we turn, we witness the dismembering and fracturing of many previously taken for granted realities, with maps and borders – physical and metaphorical – being redrawn before our eyes. What place for the feminist practical theologian in such a climate? "In Fragments for Fractured Times", one of the world's leading feminist practical theologians, Nicola Slee, brings together 15 years of papers, articles, talks and sermons, many of them previously unpublished. Collected from diverse times, places, settings and occasions, Slee offers an introduction to each fragment, "holding it up to the light and examining its size, shape, texture and pattern". Drawing on a wide and diverse range of her writing, Slee demonstrates the richness and variety of feminist practical theological writing. What feminist theology brings to the table of scholarly thinking and embodied practice is, she suggests, something creative, artful, prophetic as well as playful – a resource for Christian living and thinking in fractured times.

List of Contributors

1\. Introduction: Missio Dei in a Digital Age 1

Jonas Kurlberg

Part 1 Missiological Perspectives 21

2\. Digital Inculturation 23

Katherine G. Schmidt

3\. Mission: An Adventure of the (Digital) Imagination 36

Jonny Baker

4\. Digital Theology: Practicing Local Theology in an Age of Global Technology 51

Rei Lemuel Crizaldo

Part 2 Missional Practices 73

5\. Finding Jesus Online: Digital Evangelism and the Future of Christian Mission 75

Steve Hollinghurst

6\. The Double-Edged Sword of the Cherubim: Do Algorithms Inhibit Our Access to the Knowledge of God? Google and Missio Dei in a Digital Age 98

Christian Grund Sørensen

7\. Interactive Technologies, Missio Dei and Grassroots Activism 122

Erkki Sutinen and Anthony Cooper

8\. Amusing Ourselves to New Life? Strategic and Pastoral Reflections on Digital Media and Contemporary Spirituality 150

John Drane and Olive Fleming Drane

9\. Worship, Community and Missio Dei in a Digital Age 170

Maggi Dawn

10\. Back to the Roots or Growing New Branches: Preaching, Orality and Mission in a Digital Age 195

Frida Mannerfeldt

Part 3 Public Theology and the Common Good 221

11\. Vulnerable Children and Missio Dei in a Digital Age 223

Tim Davy

12\. Public Faith, Shame and China’s Social Credit System 236

Alexander Chow

Conclusion 257

13\. Conclusion: Missio Dei in a Digital Age 259

 Peter M. Phillips

__Jonas Kurlberg__ is a Research Fellow and Deputy Director at the Centre for Digital Theology, Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University. __Peter M. Phillips__ is a Research Fellow and Director at the Centre for Digital Theology, Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University.

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