TY  - BOOK
AU  - Horsfield,Peter
TI  - From Jesus to the Internet: A History of Christianity and Media
T2  - New York Academy of Sciences Series
SN  - 9781118447352
AV  - BV652.95 .H67 2015 
U1  - 261.5/209 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Newark
PB  - John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
KW  - Church and mass media-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- From Jesus to the Internet -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- What's this book about? -- What do we mean by Christianity? -- What do we mean by media? -- Media and the historical development of Christianity -- Notes -- 1 In the Beginning -- The social and media context -- Jesus in his media context -- Remaking Jesus in speech and performance -- Notes -- 2 Making Jesus Gentile -- Context: the media world of the Roman Empire -- Early Christian writing -- Paul and letter writing -- The end of the beginning -- Notes -- 3 The Gentile Christian Communities -- The appeal of Christianity -- Multimedia communities -- Christian writings -- The written gospels -- The Acts of the Apostles -- The lives of the martyrs -- The reception and circulation of Christian writings -- Resistance to writing -- Notes -- 4 Men of Letters and Creation of "The Church" -- The Catholic-Orthodox brand -- Installing a hierarchical authority structure -- Building a Catholic‐Orthodox branded church identity -- Reducing difference -- Tertullian -- Cyprian -- Origen - the media magnate of Alexandria -- Writing out women -- Notes -- 5 Christianity and Empire -- Imperial patronage and imperial Christianity -- Councils, creeds, and canons -- Constructing time - Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History -- The scriptures as text and artifact -- Notes -- 6 The Latin Translation -- Latin roots -- Jerome (c. 342-420) -- Ambrose (c. 339-397) -- Augustine (354-430) -- After the fall -- Monasteries and manuscripts -- Written Latin and the consolidation of medieval Christendom -- Notes -- 7 Christianity in the East -- The Church of the East -- Islam -- Writing the voice -- Regulating the eyes -- Notes -- 8 Senses of the Middle Ages -- The medieval context -- Making time -- Seeing space -- Rituals and hearing -- Nice touch: relics, saints, and pilgrimage -- Notes; 9 The New Millennium -- Marketing the Crusades -- Scholasticism and universities -- Cathedrals -- Catholic reform -- The Inquisition -- Notes -- 10 Reformation -- Printing and its precursors -- Martin Luther -- John Calvin -- Reworking the Bible -- The changing sensory landscape -- Catholic responses -- Ignatius of Loyola -- Notes -- 11 The Modern World -- The legacy of the Reformation -- Catholic mission -- The impact of print -- Evangelical Revivalism -- Protestant mission -- Notes -- 12 Electrifying Sight and Sound -- The technologies of the audiovisual -- Christianity and the twentieth-century media world -- Mainline mediation -- The Evangelical Coalition -- Fundamentalism and Pentecostalism -- Notes -- 13 The Digital Era -- The empire of digital capitalism -- Digital practice -- Digital practice as immersive environment -- Social risks of digital practice -- Digital language -- Deinstitutionalization and new community formations -- Openness to enchantment and transcendence -- Global Pentecostalism -- Media and Christian sexual abuse -- Tradition and change -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Index -- EULA
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