Virtual World - Week One

Indicative definitions

• An accessible community that exists in cyberspace
• Worlds in a digital dimension
• A disembodied, immaterial, non-physical place of human existing
• People engaging with other people, information, ideas and entertainment via the internet

Bible as cultural artefact

Accessing the Bible in the ancient world

Patterns of devotion directed by technology.

Internet the result of a confluence of technologies akin to the arrival of the Book.

Virtual Revelation documentary BBC TWO http://www.bbc.co.uk/virtualrevolution/

Personal Identity

• Embodiment
• Reality vs the Virtual
• Belonging (community)
• Actions/Interactions (grooming)
• Communication - call and response intrinsic (see McFadyen)

Virtual World and theology (Trinity, christology/incarnation, creation, soteriology and anthropology)