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1	On evangelizing an avatar : an empirical exploration of the expression of faith in virtual reality Schulte, Steffen Michael 11 1900 (has links) Mission is a central aspect of the Christian faith and much thought is given to the challenge of proclaiming the gospel in a new context or to a different people group (i.e. contextualization). In recent years, a new context has come to the forefront that has been and is being created through technology, namely virtual reality (VR). The purpose of this study is to explore how contextualization, with regards to evangelization, needs to be done in VR. The proposed thesis is that VR provides a new context in which the Christian faith is, or should be, shared in a contextualized way. Although much thought is given to the question of religion in VR, it mostly focuses on the nature of communities online. This study addresses the issue of online evangelization, which has so far received less attention. This doctoral thesis is structured after the empirical-theological praxis cycle of Faix (2007a), and the Policy Delphi Method (PDM) is the research technique used. Through the PDM, a panel of experts from different backgrounds (theologians, sociologists, and practitioners) discussed the various ways in which VR affects evangelization, the way people form their religious identity, and how contextualization could take place. The aim of this research is to contribute to the field of missiology by investigating VR as a new context in which to proclaim the Christian faith. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / D. Th.(Missiology) Contextualization Evangelization Internet Virtual reality Religious identity Expert-interviews ETP cycle Grounded theory Policy Delphi Method Action research 269.2 Virtual reality -- Religious aspects Avatars (Virtual reality) Evangelistic work
2	On evangelizing an avatar : an empirical exploration of the expression of faith in virtual reality Schulte, Steffen Michael 11 1900 (has links) Mission is a central aspect of the Christian faith and much thought is given to the challenge of proclaiming the gospel in a new context or to a different people group (i.e. contextualization). In recent years, a new context has come to the forefront that has been and is being created through technology, namely virtual reality (VR). The purpose of this study is to explore how contextualization, with regards to evangelization, needs to be done in VR. The proposed thesis is that VR provides a new context in which the Christian faith is, or should be, shared in a contextualized way. Although much thought is given to the question of religion in VR, it mostly focuses on the nature of communities online. This study addresses the issue of online evangelization, which has so far received less attention. This doctoral thesis is structured after the empirical-theological praxis cycle of Faix (2007a), and the Policy Delphi Method (PDM) is the research technique used. Through the PDM, a panel of experts from different backgrounds (theologians, sociologists, and practitioners) discussed the various ways in which VR affects evangelization, the way people form their religious identity, and how contextualization could take place. The aim of this research is to contribute to the field of missiology by investigating VR as a new context in which to proclaim the Christian faith / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / D. Th. (Missiology) Contextualization Evangelization Internet Virtual reality Religious identity Expert-interviews ETP cycle Grounded theory Policy Delphi method Action research 200.2854678 Virtual reality -- Religious aspects Evangelistic work Internet -- Religious aspects
3	A theological analysis of what sin would be in virtual reality Nortjé, Johannes Andries 11 1900 (has links) The genre affiliation is a postmodern study: Virtual Reality (VR) becomes a comprehensive concept, in the face of modernism's illusion, when rhetoric validates all discourses. All is VR. The study is in three sections with an overall introduction and conclusion: the first section introduces VR in its postmodern setting, the second section establishes the postmodern timeless/spaceless paradigm of HyperReality in which all Hermeneutics are being done from, the last section draws the paradigm into the Creatio Ex Nihilio discourse of the Scriptures. The proposed theological model is an intratextual theological model, however when YAHWEH precedes language then all discourses become intratextually part of the Biblical discourse. Human creativity is a metaphorical journey; the Fall was the outset of two languages, one in the presence of YAHWEH, while the other one void of this presence led to a nihilistic abstract constellation. Sin in VR is the unbiblical appropriation of this constellation. / Thesis (M.Th.) Postliberal Poststructural Social Construction HyperReality Virtual Reality Simulacra Communal Hermeneutic Topology Creatio Ex Nihilo 230.01 Creation -- History of doctrines Religion and science.. Sin Virtual reality -- Religious aspects Postmodernism -- Religious aspects Postliberal theology
4	A theological analysis of what sin would be in virtual reality Nortjé, Johannes Andries 11 1900 (has links) The genre affiliation is a postmodern study: Virtual Reality (VR) becomes a comprehensive concept, in the face of modernism's illusion, when rhetoric validates all discourses. All is VR. The study is in three sections with an overall introduction and conclusion: the first section introduces VR in its postmodern setting, the second section establishes the postmodern timeless/spaceless paradigm of HyperReality in which all Hermeneutics are being done from, the last section draws the paradigm into the Creatio Ex Nihilio discourse of the Scriptures. The proposed theological model is an intratextual theological model, however when YAHWEH precedes language then all discourses become intratextually part of the Biblical discourse. Human creativity is a metaphorical journey; the Fall was the outset of two languages, one in the presence of YAHWEH, while the other one void of this presence led to a nihilistic abstract constellation. Sin in VR is the unbiblical appropriation of this constellation. / Thesis (M.Th.) Postliberal Poststructural Social Construction HyperReality Virtual Reality Simulacra Communal Hermeneutic Topology Creatio Ex Nihilo 230.01 Creation -- History of doctrines Religion and science.. Sin Virtual reality -- Religious aspects Postmodernism -- Religious aspects Postliberal theology
5	Holographic memoirs of a dream : the invention of tram hopping Nortjé, Johannes Andries 01 1900 (has links) The medium is the message in the first place: the medium as presence, as the author. His contribution to the academic world is his academic Holographic Memoirs. His story, the author's memoirs, is a fictive-narrative discourse with an organic ubuntu open-endedness. The Hologram is both an autobiography, but also all the information at all places simultaneously – nonlocal in quantum physical terms - within an intense hallucinating dream: no illusion, but rather a HyperReality with all its Virtual Identities. The invention of tram hopping is the plot of the story. The plot is like an hourglass where the first part of the story is the emptying of the sand, the deconstruction of modernism, but while the top chamber runs empty and the bottom chamber fills up, so the deconstruction is simultaneously a dependent arising/(social) construction/ubuntuing to revival – the synagogal Shekinah presence of YAHWEH. The top chamber is the unreasonable Newtonian physics and the bottom chamber reasonable quantum physics. The metaphysics (before the physics) of the top chamber is poststructuralism and deconstruction, while the bottom chamber is the virtual Hebraic worldview that delutively merges ubuntu and Buddhism. The long narrow neck in the middle is the moonily narrative that lives us with psychology (Psycho-logic) lost in sociology (Social-physics). Hermeneutics is set forth in the same contrasting hourglass of the top chamber, the inherited tradition, emptying to what it should accomplish – (virtual) presence. / Philosophy & Systematic Theology / D. Th. (Systematic Theology) YAHWEH Yeshua Holy Spirit Theology Philosophy Deconstruction Poststrucuralism Narrative Consciousness Unconsciousness Dream Hermeneutics Revival Radical inductive Modernism Postmodernism Postliberal Liberal theology Novels Virtual reality HyperReality Simulacrum Ubuntu Buddhism Hebrew Quantum mechanics Physics Newton Einstein Bohr Euclidean Riemannian Siddhartha Guatemala Hermeneutical circle Fictive-narrative Van Niekerk Currency 230.01 Religion and science Virtual reality -- Religious aspects Postmodernism -- Religious aspects Postliberal theology Religion and literature Hermeneutics Buddhism
6	Holographic memoirs of a dream : the invention of tram hopping Nortje, Johannes Andries 01 1900 (has links) The medium is the message in the first place: the medium as presence, as the author. His contribution to the academic world is his academic Holographic Memoirs. His story, the author's memoirs, is a fictive-narrative discourse with an organic ubuntu open-endedness. The Hologram is both an autobiography, but also all the information at all places simultaneously – nonlocal in quantum physical terms - within an intense hallucinating dream: no illusion, but rather a HyperReality with all its Virtual Identities. The invention of tram hopping is the plot of the story. The plot is like an hourglass where the first part of the story is the emptying of the sand, the deconstruction of modernism, but while the top chamber runs empty and the bottom chamber fills up, so the deconstruction is simultaneously a dependent arising/(social) construction/ubuntuing to revival – the synagogal Shekinah presence of YAHWEH. The top chamber is the unreasonable Newtonian physics and the bottom chamber reasonable quantum physics. The metaphysics (before the physics) of the top chamber is poststructuralism and deconstruction, while the bottom chamber is the virtual Hebraic worldview that delutively merges ubuntu and Buddhism. The long narrow neck in the middle is the moonily narrative that lives us with psychology (Psycho-logic) lost in sociology (Social-physics). Hermeneutics is set forth in the same contrasting hourglass of the top chamber, the inherited tradition, emptying to what it should accomplish – (virtual) presence. / Philosophy and Systematic Theology / D. Th. (Systematic Theology) YAHWEH Yeshua Holy Spirit Theology Philosophy Deconstruction Poststrucuralism Narrative Consciousness Unconsciousness Dream Hermeneutics Revival Radical inductive Modernism Postmodernism Postliberal Liberal theology Novels Virtual reality HyperReality Simulacrum Ubuntu Buddhism Hebrew Quantum mechanics Physics Newton Einstein Bohr Euclidean Riemannian Siddhartha Guatemala Hermeneutical circle Fictive-narrative Van Niekerk Currency 230.01 Religion and science Virtual reality -- Religious aspects Postmodernism -- Religious aspects Postliberal theology Religion and literature Hermeneutics Buddhism

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