The Importance of the Cinema in the Dialogue Between Theology and Post-modernity: 10 Stages of a Journey

Many current cultural factors and the internal dynamics of post-modernity, both very much related to information and communication technologies, seem to indicate that the pulchrum (beauty) will continue to have a relative predominance over the verum (truth) and the bonum (good). In fact, the verum a...

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Published in:Communication research trends 2013-09, Vol.32 (3), p.28
Main Author: Galvan, José M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
American culture
Artists
Cinematography
Communication
Communications technology
Culture
Ethics
God
Information technology
Modernity
Postmodernism
Religion
Theology
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Summary:Many current cultural factors and the internal dynamics of post-modernity, both very much related to information and communication technologies, seem to indicate that the pulchrum (beauty) will continue to have a relative predominance over the verum (truth) and the bonum (good). In fact, the verum and the bonum of the ideas carried by the information and communication technologies tend to be basically entrusted to their "form of appearance," to their pulchrum. To this must be added that post-modernity still manifests a strong deficit of metaphysical thought resulting in a lack of ethical foundation, that makes the verum too arduous, and the bonum too difficult to achieve. At the same time, post-modernity seems to displace the object of theology toward "pre-theological" elements, as a consequence of the need for dialogue between the anthropological requirements of post-modernity and the responses to central anthropological questions contained in Christian revelation.
ISSN:0144-4646