Materials for a reflection on “electronic media” and “spirituality”
R.-F. Poswick, osb - Crec-Avex 9-10 Janvier 2003

I would like to take the largest view possible on what may mean for mankind, in the line of the History of Salvation as thought in the Christian Tradition, the current cultural changes (mostly based on the universal adoption of the “electronic writing”).

1. One must first have a shared understanding of what is the electronic writing: whereform it comes (history), extension of its domain (geomediatic), functioning.

2. One must next see the fields and the ways the electronic writing impact on the life and teaching of Christian communities.

3. To face the changes brought by the electronic writing, we need a new “anthropology” (i.e.: vision of mankind); and this new anthropology calls for a renewed spirituality.

One will find attached some “files”, often in form of question, that could help for such a reflection giving materials in the line of the three steps suggested above.

- Language of the electronic culture

- Internet and the new world order for information and communication

- Twelve questions to the Churches about computers'culture

- How to transfer the Word of God from alphabetic to electronic writing: conditions and challenges

- Evaluating a WEB site: some criteria