Postdigital Mediation of Transcendence

• Published in: Postdigital science and education Vol. 3; no. 2; pp. 308 - 311
• Main Author: Trozzo, Eric
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.04.2021; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Christianity; Commentaries; Education; Educational Philosophy; Educational Technology; Handheld Devices; Jesus Christ; Justice; Mediation; Narcissism; Religion; Spirituality; Technology and Digital Education; Theology; Traditions; Vision; Theological aesthetics; Lutheran theology; Icon and idol; Postdigital; Jean-Luc Marion; Cyber-theology; Digital religion
• ISSN: 2524-485X; 2524-4868
• DOI: 10.1007/s42438-020-00135-2

When he saw a piece of art that moved him, he would painstakingly set up his picture so that it captured his experience of that piece of art. [...]while my Lutheran Christian tradition is often understood as being text-based, I have suggested (Trozzo 2019) that the Lutheran understanding of the Word of God is actually better understood as addressing how the divine can be mediated through language—spoken and written—in a healing manner into human experience. French phenomenologist Jean-Luc Marion (1991) has built an important bridge into philosophy in this area in considering idols and icons in his argument for finding surplus meaning beyond a text. [...]the encounter between a viewer and the idol is thought by the viewer to be a subject capturing an object in its sight, thereby marking a distinction between the two, but is in fact primarily a means of narcissistic self-projection. Central to these various Christian theological ruminations on the mediation of the divine into human experience are the themes of healing and justice.