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- The document discusses how new technologies like Google have changed modes of living, communicating, and doing theology. It argues that theology is no longer something consumed from authorities but something produced collaboratively. - It says the new Christian leader is a host rather than sole authority, and that theology after Google blurs the lines between sacred and secular. All of life manifests theology. - The document encourages experimenting with "beta theologies" through collaboration, hosting open discussions, and enjoying the process of shared learning and participation rather than relying on centralized institutions or authorities.
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- 1. “Church” ≠ Slow and Dead:Inviting Christianityinto the Age of Google Philip Clayton Claremont School of Theology March 10, 2010
- 14. How big is Google? Google runs over one million servers in data centers around the world, and processes over one billion search requests and twenty petabytes of user-generated data every day… Alexalists Google as the Internet's most visited website.Googleis also Fortune Magazine's fourth best place to work, and BrandZ's most powerful brand in the world.
- 15. What is the Google zeitgeist? "Zeitgeist" means "the spirit of the times", and Google reveals this spirit through the aggregation of millions of search queries we receive every day. We have several tools that give insight into global, regional, past and present search trends. These tools are available for you to play with, explore, and learn from. Use them for everything from business research to trivia answers. Take a look inside the world of search Google Trends - For a broad look at search query data, enter up to five search terms to see relative popularity over time. Trends for Websites - Google Trends for website traffic data. Type in a website address to see visitors by region and related sites visited. Insights for Search - A deeper dive into search query data for marketers and power users. Create your own lists of "most popular" and "fastest rising" queries for different geographic regions over time and by topic. Hot Trends - The top 100 fastest-rising search queries right now (U.S. only). Updates throughout the day.
- 16. Facebook stats… More than 400 million active users 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day More than 35 million users update their status each day More than 60 million status updates posted each day More than 3 billion photos uploaded to the site each month More than 5 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each week More than 3.5 million events created each month More than 3 million active Pages on Facebook More than 20 million people become fans of Pages each day Pages have created more than 5.3 billion fans
- 17. Beliefnet.com… “Your Trusted Source for Free Daily Inspiration & Faith”
- 20. Tell a Story Connect a Tribe Lead a Movement Make Change
- 22. Where have we gotten to? It’s been a time of decline of the mainline churches and progressive Christian organizations Many of these are linked to pre-1960s culture. They convey info in the Gutenberg mode “Google” is a metaphor for new modes of living & communicating. (We are not evangelizing google) Core concepts from the new technologies open up new vista for talking about church and theology today. LET’S EXPLORE IT!!!
- 23. Core principles of “Beta theologies” Try it and see if it works… Let users make it better “Wiki” it … Experiment! Christian community gets exciting when the safety provided by the old cultural authorities is no longer there. Now you really know you need grace!
- 24. 1. Theology is not something you consume, but something you produce
- 25. 2. No institutions, and very few persons, function as authorities for theology after Google
- 26. 3. Theology after Google is not centralized and localized. Likewise, the church cannot be localized in a single building. We find church in the most surprising places
- 27. 4. The new Christian leader is a host, not an authority who dispenses true teaching, wise words, and the sole path to salvation.
- 28. 5. Theology after Google does not divide up the world between the “sacred” and the “secular,” as past theologies so often did. All thought and experience bears on it, and all of one’s life manifests it. All of one’s life as a Christian is missional.
- 29. The Old Logic John Franke is an evangelical. Philip Clayton is a progressive Christian. Therefore… they will be saying completely different things. They will not like each other; they will not understand each each; they will have trouble sharing in one mission and acknowledging the one church.
- 30. The New Logic… Look at what’s happening here. Tonight. This week.
- 31. Theology After Google… Learn Participate Enjoy!
Editor's Notes
- What’s a TED talk?Even Billy Graham had to try to honesty and exposure of a TED talk<<iPOD Billy Graham clip>>
- Pew Forum for Religion and Public Life. Their most recent report examines the religious beliefs and practices of the post-Baby-Boom generations: Gen X, the so-called lost generation, and the generation born after 1980 -- the "Millennial Generation." By some indicators, the report says, this new generation is less religious than older Americans. Nearly one-quarter of young people are religiously "unaffiliated", which is a higher rate than the two previous generations at comparable ages. The Millennials pray and attend worship less often than previous generations. Yet their degree of religious interest –in God, life after death, etc. -- is at the same high level as the last two generations. The difference is that they practice differently than their predecessors.Who are these people? What are their religious interests? When they do espouse Christianity, what do they believe? And how do they practice?
- So remember: it’s not just about the technology. “TAG” is not trying to “sell” you on this or that website or software program. We don’t own stock in Google. There are drawbacks to virtual communities and virtual Friends. Friendship is not as simple as saying ‘yes’ to someone’s friend request on Facebook. John 15: “laying down one’s life for his friends.” You should be aware of these things.Instead, TAG is about the new context in which people live today, a new context in which people are church.(thanks to Duane Bidwell, CST, for the link)
- The Age of Gutenberg: PP x ??????
- Bibles convey the answer. You read them.
- You preach them.
- .. And then you read it to find out how to worship.(I like the text on the right…. READ IT)
- So just go with me for a minute: a kairos is taking place (Tillich) – an age is ending and a new one is starting.
- 2 Old-time Churcheshttp://www.fupc.org/images/Church.jpg
- 3 PP of “church” – culturally different from us!
- You brought the whole family… you had a family.(The Brady Bunch)
- But life is different now PP x 3.
- Aggregate people’s interests. You go to Google to find out what other people are interested. In a move that cd define pomo, knowledge becomes what you’re interested in about what others are (or have been) interested in.Google is the fastest growing corporation in the history of this planet.
- Aggregate people’s interests. You go to Google to find out what other people are interested. In a move that cd define pomo, knowledge becomes what you’re interested in about what others are (or have been) interested in.Google is the fastest growing corporation in the history of this planet.
- Beliefnet
- How is people’s experience of community changing as a result? * today I followed my niece in Scotland * we shared news about Mary’s death * my doctoral students are thinking hard about theology without the prof. listening in. (or so they think.) * we publicized this conferenceAre you using this tool, this opportunity, successfully?Jesus on Iphonehttp://s3.gadgetreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/jesus_iphone.jpg
- PP x 4: racing: The pace has changed.We have the impression that churches move slowly. Say at the pace of academic publishing. Or as slowly as life changed in the 1950s.It isn’t true.
- THE AGE OF GOOGLE: read slide
- THE AGE OF GOOGLE: Betatheology- This is emergent as well.
- • Theology is not something you consume, but something you produce. In the Age of Gutenberg, you read theology in a book; you heard it preached in sermons; and you were taught it by Bible teachers. In the Age of Google, theology is what you do when you’re responding to blogs, contributing to a wiki doc or google doc, marking up a Word doc on your computer, participating in worship, inventing new forms of “ministry,” or talking about God with your friends in a pub.
- • No institutions, and very few persons, function as authorities for theology after Google. Ever since Jesus’ (often misunderstood) statement about Peter that “on this rock I will build my church” (Mt. 16), the church has had issues with authority. The point is too obvious to need examples. The pastor standing up in the pulpit in the early 1960s was still a major authority. Of course, pastors still stand up in pulpits today, and some still view themselves as indispensable purveyors of truth. But the world is changing around us. Those of us who speak in pulpits are having to rethink our relationship with the audiences we address. Most people today shrug their shoulders at those who claim to be authorities in religious matters. (For many of us, scripture continues to be an authority, but the way in which it’s an authority has changed massively over the last 30 years. More on that topic the next time I write.) Theology today means what some number of us find plausible about our faith or are convinced of. Our leaders are people like Brian McLaren or Tony Jones or Spencer Burke — people who say things that ring true to us, so that we say, “Yeah, I think that guy’s got some important insights. I’m going to read his blog or find a way to talk with him, and I’m going to recommend to my friends that they do the same.”
- Theology after Google is not centralized and localized. Likewise, the church cannot be localized in a single building. We find church wherever we find Jesus-followers that we link up with who are doing cool things. This point is huge. Denominational officials and many pastors have not even begun to conceive and wrestle with what it means to work for a church without a clear geographical location.
- We’ll talk about this.
- Theology after Google does not divide up the world between the “sacred” and the “secular,” as past theologies so often did. All thought and experience bears on it, and all of one’s life manifests it. Thus the distinction between one’s “ministry” and one’s “ordinary life” is bogus. All of one’s life as a Christian is missional
- New partnerships are happening. The old battle lines don’t move many of us any more. People today are putting the pieces together differently.My Christian faith implies a theology . There are deep questions that I have to struggle with. Call them the core xn questions. But my answers don’t have to exclude yours. That’s the either/or logic.