popular media confronts Christianity ...
In the encounter between the two,
popular media confronts Christianity
to reconsider / revisit / rediscover
certain long-neglected aspects of Christian faith and theology:
- the emotive (non-rational) side of the Christian FAITH
- the material / body aspect of Christianity
- the vulgarity of faith
- irreverent expressions of faith
- the dialogical (interactive) essence of Christian faith expressions
- the narrative quality of Christianity (Christianity as story)
- the essentially contextual nature of theology
- the transient (ad-hoc) nature of theological constructions
- the marginal identity of the Church
- the mediated nature of religious faith (including Christianity)
[proposed as a tentative conclusion to Media, Popular Culture, and Christianity, offered at the Divinity School of Chung Chi College, the Chinese University of Hong Kong -- probably the first-ever course of its kind offered in a theological school in East Asia]