Christian unity and diversity in the age of the Internet and virtual communication Cover Image

Unitate și diversitate creștină în era internetului și a comunicării virtuale
Christian unity and diversity in the age of the Internet and virtual communication

Author(s): Bogdan Viorel Gabor
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion, Systematic Theology, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: EDITURA RENAȘTEREA
Keywords: Christian unity; diversity; Internet; communication; communion; digital space; virtual environment;

Summary/Abstract: Nowadays we have a wide variety of tools designed to ensure a better form of communication and relationship between people. More than ever, the feeling of communion and unity can be lived on an absolute level, because the man, as a relational being, can not exist alone, but by the continuous manifestation of love for others, in an existential unity. Although every christian has an open perspective of realising unity, we note, however, that there are more discussions of a bad and baleful reality in which unity is shaken by all theese secularizing factors. At a time when it would be expected for unity to be highlighted and noticed, because of theese many current means of communication, it manifests, on the contrary, disunion, separation and christian diversity. This article aims to analyze how the diversity and the christian unity manifests in the present, in the context of new media communication and information means of the digital world, offering a possible answer to those challenges. Is the internet a useful tool for establishing christian unity or is it an obstacle to its realization?

  • Issue Year: 2/2019
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 149-161
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Romanian
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