The Myth of the Electronic Church: Evangelical Appropriations of the Technological Sublime

A prominent attitude toward technology in American culture is the optimistic embrace of technological change as progressive, as expressed in what Leo Marx has called “the rhetoric of the technological sublime.” This attitude has been embraced by evangelicals, as exemplified in two projects which view the internet in terms of an ecclesial version of the technological sublime. This article analyzes the ministries of Global Media Outreach and the Table Project, and argues that their uncritical embrace of the idea of technological progress has led these ministries to redefine the mission and fellowship of the church in theologically problematic ways.

 

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