Este es uno de los temas que más me apasiona, y de hecho sobre él hice mi tesis de carrera. Y Richard Thieme lo trata muy bien en la última edición del National Catholic Reporter.
Mc Luhan, ese gran teórico canadiense de la comunicación, afirmaba que la tecnología no es más que la extensión de nuestro cuerpo. Así, la ropa es extensión de la piel, las llantas del auto de los pies, el telescopio espacial Hubble de nuestros ojos y el internet de nuestro sistema nervioso. Y como percibimos al mundo, como lo codificamos, cambia nuestra manera de entender a Dios, sea lo que sea. Un fragmento del ensayo de Thieme:
"This is the fourth great era of the Technology of the Word, as theologian Jesuit Fr. Walter Ong calls it.... We are moving together, like it or not, through a zone of annihilation that challenges all of the ways we hold ourselves as human beings and possibilities for action in the world. The transformational energies of our time will become a firestorm when core proclamations about our beliefs begin to smoke and burn. If Christianity is to embrace and be transformed by those energies, it will necessarily become something other than what it has been or at least what it has been thought to be. Perhaps claims to exclusivity and universality will survive the fire, but perhaps not. Perhaps those claims will both intensify and diminish, intensify because some can’t help but cling to the past and diminish because we are all nevertheless being re-contextualized in a way that will remind us unceasingly that the finger pointing to the moon is not the moon. We can make this passage with sanity only if we know and have confidence that God is God and will defend Godself and cannot perish, while everything in this life, including our ideas about God, is transitory and passing."
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