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Digital Gods Digital Religions

Entering Sacred Digital Space: Seeking to Distinguish the Dreamer and the Dream

February 6, 2009

By Richard Thieme Defining the Challenge: The ‘Study’ of ‘Sacred Texts’ in the Digital Era The single quotation marks around ‘study’ and ‘sacred texts’ signify that the words inside them no longer mean what they used to mean. The symbols and images of religious experience are no longer fixed in print but are now flowing. [...]

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The Face We See In The Digital Mirror

February 11, 2005

By Richard Thieme National Catholic Reporter, February 11, 2005 I am a middle-age man who grew to maturity in a world of text, immersed in a typographic sea. I read endlessly and began writing stories as a teen. When I tried to find a market for those stories, I turned to a standard reference, Writer’s [...]

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Finding the Answer Within

December 19, 2003

By Richard Thieme William Gibson’s Neuromancer is known to many because of one word, “cyberspace,” a fulcrum of a word around which a whole new world has coalesced. Equally memorable, though, is an image of the cyberjunkie Case jacking into the Dixie Flatline for the first time. The Flatline, a.k.a. McCoy Pauley, is a firmware [...]

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Computer Applications for Spirituality

February 8, 1993

By Richard Thieme This formal theological essay was originally written in 1988. It was quite dated when published by the Anglican Theological Review in 1993. The transition from a culture created by the technology of print to one created by electronic processing of information is an occasion of excitement and great opportunity as well as [...]

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