Abstract
“The oddity of hot print theology in a cool electronic age does not stem simply from the strange world of new media. The oddity also comes from the abstract character of printed theology itself. TV is creating a new cool perspective from which the high definition of Scripture is seen as fragmentation. Is it any wonder that a church member thinks theological truths are bits of information? The form of the theology which has been dominant in the west has been the form of hot print. Could it be that Christian theology's problem has been less with the content of ‘the book,’ and more with the fact that it is formed by the peculiar sequential, uniform, abstractness of print?”
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