Abstract
An (auto)biographical Twitter-theology. Due to the increasing challenges created by an evolving digital world, traditional expressions of the Christian faith could become irrelevant for a fast-paced world. Through an autobiographical orientation, a search for meaningful personal expressions of the Christian faith on Twitter is traced and mapped down. Facilitated through a practical-theological inquiry and employing a qualitative empirical research methodology, personal aphorisms of the Christian faith on Twitter are traced down and presented as possible examples of a relevant digital autobiographical theology. Through the contribution of these empirical realities, new hermeneutical outcomes and a strategic involvement are facilitated. The creation, development and meaning of new theological formulations and articulations are explored and described through these expressions. In the tracing of and in the mapping down of these new expressions of faith, demarcations of a possible lived spirituality in the digital sphere are sounded out and verbalised. Through the documentation of these new and relevant articulations of the language of faith, a contribution is made to a meaningful digital autobiographical theology.
Highlights
’n Narratiewe oriëntasie tot die lewe waarin die waarde van persoonlike ervaringe en verhale erken word, het my toenemend skepties gelaat teenoor sogenaamde objektiewe en algemeen geldende waarhede
Die resonansie van die begrip met my eie nadenke oor relevansie en betekenis het my opnuut laat dink aan my eie navorsing en oor moontlike kontekste waarin die betekenis van relevansie en aktualiteit verder geaksentueer sou kon word
Ten einde nadenke en gesprek hieroor te fasiliteer, gaan ek eerstens verkennend en oorsigtelik teologiese bestaansruimtes aandui, maar met besondere verwysing na die gebruik van die inligtingstegnologie en sosiale media as fenomeen
Summary
Read online: Scan this QR code with your smart phone or mobile device to read online. A search for meaningful personal expressions of the Christian faith on Twitter is traced and mapped down. Facilitated through a practical-theological inquiry and employing a qualitative empirical research methodology, personal aphorisms of the Christian faith on Twitter are traced down and presented as possible examples of a relevant digital autobiographical theology. Die resonansie van die begrip met my eie nadenke oor relevansie en betekenis het my opnuut laat dink aan my eie navorsing en oor moontlike kontekste waarin die betekenis van relevansie en aktualiteit verder geaksentueer sou kon word. Ek het mettertyd begin wonder oor die betekenis van sosiale media as moontlike konteks vir die verdere aktualisering van die teologie. Vrae waaroor ek pertinent begin dink het, was die volgende: Watter betekenis hou die karakter en dinamika wat met sosiale media geassosieer word vir die teologie in? Ito (eds.), Compassion for one another in the global village: Social and cultural approaches to care and counselling, pp. 116–128, LIT-Verlag, Zürich
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