Recent Writing on Communication and Theology

Abstract

Scholars and religious communicators combine theology with communication in a number of ways. In a basic and ancient sense, theology in Anselm’s words is “faith seeking understanding”, a systematic reflection on belief. Reflection in belief does not take place in a cultural or intellectual vacuum; instead, people draw on their understandings of the world and their day-to-day experience for tools, approaches, and frameworks of understanding. In the past, philosophy often played this key role. Today, one could argue that people have become more learned in communication and media than in philosophy, thus calling for a closer link between these disciplines.