Medija, Religija Ir Filosofiniai Klausimai
Media, Religion and Philosophical Questions

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with relationship between media, religion and philosophy. The rise of new media and changes in the relationship between all (old and new) members of media family initiates exactly the philosophical questions that usually arise during tectonic breaks of social and individual life. The author raises the question whether the Church, hardly using amphitheatric mass-communication, is so innocent to be totalitarian or, conversely, it is too authoritative to change the means of communication. Communication is an affair of existence, i.e. of being towards death. Communication is desperately attempting to leave a trace in the codified battlefield of culture while we are struggling with anonymous codes. The new code breaks the old one by transferring an existential region to the centre of thought. Jesus Christ could be communicated as God only by recognizing his suffering which is possible only by being a human. Therefore, the Passion is a guarantee of communication both between the participants of the Christian community and between the limited human being and the unlimited God. By appealing to the borders of human body, the Passion refers to a sphere beyond the existential region. By the mediation of the senses, a church includes us in a venture of existence when our finite time has been disproportionately elongated in both directions. Philosophy is possible only by communication and in communication with other branches of human activity as religion or politics.

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