sdc3. responding to media
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The third of three sessions discussing engaging with culture at the Southampton Deanery Chapter's study day, 18 May 2010.TRANSCRIPT
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what do the media do to us?
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Marshall McCluhan
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It is just the literature that we read for ‘amusement’, or ‘purely for pleasure’ that may have the greatest and least suspected influence upon us. It is the literature that we read with the least effort that can have the easiest and most insidious influence upon us.
T.S. EliotSelected Essays (Faber and Faber, 1932)
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The media shape ourreality
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‘I think my image is one of being powerful, in control.’
Shakira
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‘the frantic desire for the almost real’
(Umberto Eco)
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How do we respond?
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5 dimensions to think about
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Aesthetics
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Emotions
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morality
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beliefs
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spirituality
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People who are not Christians
Christians
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Responding personally
Helping others to respond
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No single piece of our mental world is to be hermetically sealed off from the rest, and there is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry: ‘Mine!’
Abraham Kuyper
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Two faces of reality
Humans are God’s image-bearers
Humans are rebels against God
Culture is
wonderful!
CULTURE IS TERRIBLE
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living in the world
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Do not conform to the pattern of this world. (Romans 12:1)
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pressure to conform
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wrong thinking
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right thinking
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Christian values
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Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. . . . Love your neighbour as yourself.
Mark 12:30–31, NIV
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Paul in As
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engaging the world
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• The Agora looking northwest from Acropolis
Engaging withpopular worldviews
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•Agora, altar to 12 gods (nw corner of agora)
•Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Hestia, Apollo, Artemis, Hephæstus, Athena, Ares, Aphrodite and Hermes
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Observing culture carefully
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bridge-building
© Steve9091, 2007. Used under a Creative Commons licence
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making connections
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shared starting point
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shared language
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positive interaction
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39Preaching Jesus
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engaging with worldviews
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challenging
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affirming
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Arguing for Christiantruth claims
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How can we develop a Christian mind, which is both shaped by the truths of historic, biblical Christianity, and acquainted with the realities of the contemporary world? How can we relate the Word to the world, understanding the world in the light of the Word, and even understanding the Word in the light of the world? . . .
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We have to begin with a double refusal. We refuse to become either so absorbed in the Word, that we escape into it and fail to let it confront the world, or so absorbed in the world, that we conform to it and fail to subject it to the judgement of the Word. Escapism and conformity are opposite mistakes, but neither is a Christian option.
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In place of this double refusal we are called to double listening, listening both to the Word and to the world. . . . We listen to the Word with humble reverence, anxious to understand it, and resolved to believe and obey what we come to understand.
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We listen to the world with critical alertness, anxious to understand it too, and resolved not necessarily to believe and obey it, but to sympathise with it and to seek grace to discover how the gospel relates to it. . . .
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'Double listening', however, contains no element of self-contradiction. . . . These voices will often contradict one another, but our purpose in listening to them both is to discover how they relate to each other. Double listening is indispensable to Christian discipleship and Christian mission.
John StottThe Contemporary Christiant, pp. 27–29
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There are more idols in the world than there are realities.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Gods
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good things
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ultimate things
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We think that idols are bad things, but that is almost never the case. The greater the good, the more likely we are to expect that it can satisfy our deepest needs and hopes. Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.
Tim Keller
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We love idols. We trust idols. We obey idols. We look to idols to love us and provide value, beauty, sense of significance and worth.
Tim Keller
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love
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trust
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obey
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worship
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what do we love most?
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what do we trust?
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idols will always let us down
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These gods, who did not make the heavens and the earth, will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.
But God made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.
Jeremiah 10:10–12
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All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Those who would speak up for them are blind; they are ignorant, to their own shame.
Isaiah 44:9
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what do we obey?
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we were made to worship
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idolatry = seeking ultimate peace
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Jesus = perfect image of God
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fulfilment
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forgiveness
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freedom
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FREEDOM
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HAPPINESS
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13 Conversations
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LOVE
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fulfilment
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PEACE
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