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THEOCOM17

For the past three days I’ve been attending the annual Theology and Communication conference THEOCOM17 at Santa Clara University in California. The conference describes itself as “A gathering of Theologians on Digital Communication” and this year’s theme is “Digital Shepherding: Pastoral Theology and Ministry in a Digital Age”.

The schedule of presentations is below, which I’ve annotated with relevant web links. Overall, some very interesting papers and excellent conversation.

Theological Foundations

    • Matthias Scharer
      From Pastoral Theology to Practical Theology: The Impact of Karl Rahner’s Understanding of Practical Theology in a Digital World
    • Archimandrite Alexandros Salmas
      St. Gregory the Theologian: A Patristic Paradigm for Pastoral Theology and Ministry in the Digital Age
    • Thomas Boomershine
      The Embodiment of the Word: A Pastoral Approach to Scripture in a Digital Age
  • Nadia Delicata
    Moral Theology in a Digital Age: Retrieving the Past for the Future

Media and Ministry

Education and Formation

    • Mary Hess
      Storying Faith Amidst Digital Cultures: Renewing Religious Education in the 21st Century
  • Rev. Jose Palakeel
    “Feed my Geeks”: Reflections on Ministerial Education and Formation in Digital Culture

Theology in Context

  • Theo Nicolakis and George Sarraf
    Conciliarity in a Digital Age: A Study on the recent Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church
  • Alba Sabaté Gauxachs
    Digital media, the New Space for Religion to Meet Youth. The Catalan case
  • David Trobisch and Seth Pollinger
    The Technology outreach of the Museum of the Bible

Pastoral Responses

  • Levi Checketts
    The Persona of the Pastor on Social Media
  • Antonio Spadaro, S.J.
    Social Media Practices

Pastoral Implementation

  • Fran Plude
    Building ‘Listening’ Communities of Faith: A Response to the Appeal for Dialogue of Pope Francis
  • Caroline Cerveny SSJ-TOSF
    To Be and Become Digital Missionary Disciples

Also good to see the book on Authority and Leadership from THEOCOM15 coming out in September (which includes a chapter I contributed).

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