Virtual Communion: Theology of the Internet and the Catholic Sacramental Imagination provides a theological account of the Internet from a Catholic perspective.
Overall, Schmidt argues that the social possibilities of the Internet afford the church great opportunity for building a social context that allows the living out of Eucharistic logic learned in properly liturgical moments..
Schmidt argues that the Catholic Imagination is inherently consonant with the idea of the virtual, understood as the creative space between presence and absence, bringing the fields of media studies, Internet studies, sociology, history, and Theology together in order to give a theological account of the social realities of American Catholicism in light of digital culture.
Katherine G.
It engages digital culture by providing a context for media and mediation within the Catholic tradition, specifically focusing on the ecclesiology and sacramentality of the church.
Virtual Communion: Theology of the Internet and the Catholic Sacramental Imagination provides a theological account of the Internet from a Catholic perspective
