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Page 1: Bible Tech2009 John Dyer How Bible Technology Shapes Our Faith

How Bible Technology Shapes Our Faith

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Before you skewer me :)

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Director of Web Development at Dallas Seminary

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http://bible.johndyer.name/

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• Technology and Society• Mediums and Messages• Bible and Technology

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GoodBad

Neutral

“It’s just how you use it”

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Phone = neutral

Call your friend = GoodCall in bomb threat = Bad

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How many phone numbers do you know by memory?

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Phone = morally neutralPhone ≠ effectively neutral

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• Know fewer numbers– Effect on the mind

• Constantly accessible– Effects on relationships

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Cars = neutral

Drive to church = GoodDrive over a person = Bad

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Car ≠ neutral

• Blacksmiths• Requires roads & laws• Connects/separates

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It’s just how you use it

Actually, it’s that we use it

Technology is not neutral

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Every medium has the capacity to communicate regardless of its content.

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I am awesum at PowerPoint

Really and truly awesome

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Humble yourself before the Lord and don’t bring attention to yourself.

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• Genre– Poetry, Narrative, Apocalypse, etc.

• Medium– Talking Donkey– Burning Bush– God in the Flesh

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• What does __ extend?• What does __ make obsolete?• What does __ retrieve?• What does __ reverse into?

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2000 B.C. to A.D. 2000 in 25 minutes

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OralAdam‐1500BC

Written1500BC‐AD1500

PrintedAD1500‐AD1980

DigitizedAD1980‐present

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The community is the device

Oral

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• More consistent• Costly

– Communal

Written

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Written

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manwoman

Written

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• From 1500B.C. to A.D.1500– Preaching– Hearing– Memorizing

• Images and Icons

Written

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• Exactness• Mass Distribution• Reference/Footnotes• Chapter and Verse Numbers

Print

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• Extends: communication, storage

• Obsoletes: communal/written knowledge, church authority 

• Retrieves: access to truth• Reverses Into: individualism

Print

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• Authority shifted from the Church to the individual

• Personal Bible study, individual faith

• Faith is logical, not emotional• Think in verses, not books

Print

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Print Digital

• Photograph• Computer/Internet

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The boys are hungry

Print Digital

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/tinajoebrianwillie/851443071/

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdiboy/3299674549/

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• Fast• Passive• Trivial/Entertaining• Story vs. logic

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• Information/Scanning• Multi‐tasking• Decontextual Language

Digital

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I worry that the level of interrupt, the sort of overwhelming rapidity of information — and especially of stressful information — is in fact affecting cognition. It is in fact affecting deeper thinking. I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something. And I worry that we’re losing that.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt

Digital

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• Increased Access• Cheap/Free• Links to other information

Digital

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• Bible as information• Bible as search

– John 3:16 – Romans 5:8

• Tools can reverse into crutches, stifle learning

Digital

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• Reject “The mediums change, but the message is the same.”

• Read scripture aloud, in community, without PowerPoint

• Reduce information, read and memorize large chunks

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• Reduce multi‐tasking• Create alternate experiences of the Bible

• Offer recommendations, not data dumps

• Minimize helps

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Email:  [email protected]:  johndyer.nameTheo/Tech:  donteatthefruit.com