Relational Productivity, Creative Energy, and YOU!
By Tripp Fuller • Jul 21st, 2009 • Category: livingThis Friday theologian Donna Bowman will be interviewed for the HBC podcast. We are planning on discussing relational theology and all that world wide web – social networking – hoopla. This is going to be a really sweet conversation and something that would be even more fun if some Deacons were involved. SO DEACONS (this is what Chad and I call all our listeners)…..here is your task what kind of theological questions does web 2.0, social networking, and all that jazz bring to mind?
I know a number of you think about this on a regular basis so give me some good questions. Post them in the comments, email me, OR call them in to HBC call-in line.
Donna said that I could share an article she sent me entitled “One More Stitch: Relational Productivity and Creative Energy.“ It uses online craft communities to explore the economy of free, social networking, just-in-time production, the growing handmade market, and the proliferation of creativity that has been facilitated by the internet. She then goes on to make a number of theological reflections from a process perspective that should get your brain juices flowing.
Moral of the story…..send us your questions and listen to the podcast.
Tripp Fuller is married to an awesome lady Alecia and has a handsome little baby boy named Elgin Thomas (aka E.T.) and Pebbles, the Schnoodle. He and Alecia are both graduates of Campbell University (where they met), the Divinity School of Wake Forest University and ordained ministers. He is working on his PhD in Philosophy of Religion and Theology at Claremont Graduate University. A few other things he digs are books, cigars, pipes, Shaq, guitar, pirates, fishing, the Counting Crows, and good conversations about Religion and Politics. The podcast is the most time consuming hobby he has ever had besides reading and blogging through Wolfhart Pannenberg's 3 volume systematic theology. Follow Tripp on Twitter | Tripp on Facebook
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In the rainforest, the biomass exists in the canopy rather than the soil. How would you re-relate the biblical parables of farming (the organic life of the Kingdom) to a more distributed model in which the culture is vibrant and alive, such as in social networking?
What connections are there between network theory and process theology?
I would love to hear you guys discuss the relationship between the Emergent church’s emphasis on environmental stewardship and the Green Movement and how that might play into a sense of neo-Puritanism with regards to restrictions and regulations on one’s daily life. Also, the Emergent movement seems to be on the forefront of newer technology and the interfacing of people in real life along with online. How do you think those are progressing the work of their particular movement, and does it seem contradictory to be heavily technologically driven while espousing an environmentalist’s attitude toward creation care?
Is tech-driven asceticism a paradox? How do the trends in post-modern Christianity affect the broader scope of Christianity in the West and worldwide?
Is the medium really the message? If so, what does that mean for technophile Christians, especially those that are using internet 2.0 in ministry?
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