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020			_a9781978701625
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050			_aBX 1795 .T42 _b.Sch349 2020
245			_aVirutal communication : _bTheology of the internet and the Catholic Sacramental imagination / _cSchmidt, Katherine G. --
260			_aLondon : _bLexington books/ Fortress Academic, _c(c) 2020.
300			_axv, 175p. : _c23cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliography and index.
520			_aVirtual Communion: Theology of the Internet and the Catholic Sacramental Imagination provides a theological account of the internet from a Catholic perspective. It engages digital culture by providing a context for media and mediation within the Catholic tradition, specifically focusing on the ecclesiology and sacramentality of the church. Katherine G. Schmidt argues that the Catholic imagination is inherently consonant with the idea of the “virtual,” understood as the creative space between presence and absence, bringing the fields of media studies, internet studies, sociology, history, and theology together in order to give a theological account of the social realities of American Catholicism in light of digital culture. Overall, Schmidt argues that 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.
546			_aIn English.
650			_2Internet -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church. Sacraments -- Catholic church -- History of doctrines.
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