Recently Tim Challies has been going over a series on why we should leave our iPods at home while addressing some things about the nature of technology and the importance of printed words (owing much to Postman and McLuhan). I struck up a conversation at Theologica about e-Bibles and wound up with varied responses .
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Theological Load Bearing Words
There are words that Christians have used for so long that they’ve become part of the community’s theological buzz words but, I think, have shifted in meaning. So whereas they may have had some specific usage in the past, now they’re used with wild abandon, rampant impunity and magical intent.
Last year I spent some time preaching through First Corinthians with an effort at pushing away from church polity and practice (First Corinthians as the model for how we “Do Church”) and underscoring the present importance of the Gospel and how it speaks into our Church experience and everyday lives.
The MP3’s are hosted at Sermon Cloud and are available after the jump.
I’ve underscored that: it would be inconsistent to believe the Gospel and not believe in a physical resurrection; there are dire consequences of holding to a non-physical resurrection; and that there is no biological and cosmological grounds to outright deny a future physical resurrection. (I even shared some thoughts on how important the resurrection is to me in my experience.) Now, although I touched on some of this with the consequences of holding to a non-Physical resurrection, I wanted to delineate a theological necessity for a physical resurrection.
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Why I Think Our Words Matter
Words convey information: that’s important to me.
Words, strung together in sentences are information vehicles driving thought from one person (me) to another (reader): that’s important to me. The nature of verbal communication is to transfer the information via the ether, with syllables of sound; if there are no ears to hear, the words disappear. The communication falters. If words are passed orally to another, the communication is received but the information is now reformulated through another vehicle.
Written communication addresses the weakness of oral communication.