Professional Documents
Culture Documents
UWRT 1102
3/10/15
Annotated Bibliography
Topic: Technology and Christianity
Inquiry: How does technology affect Christianity?
Proposed Thesis: How does technology positively affect Christianity,
negatively Christianity, and the spreading of Christianity?
By,andDaleB.Sims.TheEffectofTechnologyonChristianity:BlessingorCurse?(n.d.):n.
pag.Web.
Inthisjournal,DaleSimstalksabouttheeffectoftechnologyonChristianity.Hetalks
abouttheblessingsandcursesoftechnologyforChristianity.DaleSimssaystechnology
canbeusedasavoicetoreachaworldwideaudience.Also,hetalksabouthow
technologywasusedtotranslateandspreadtheBible.JohnGutenburgsprintingpress
wasabigfactorinthestartoftheReformation.Inthejournal,ittalksaboutanonline
churchcalledtheChurchofFools.Theonlinechurchisusedforpeoplewhohada
difficulttimeattendingchurch.Hetalksabouthowinmegachurchesthatwithininthe
pewstheyprovidepoweranddataterminalssoworshipperscanelectronicallyfollow
alongwiththesermon.DaleSimsalsotalksaboutthecursesoftechnologyfor
Christianity.Itdoesnotdeliverorguaranteeastronggenerationandcommunityof
Christians.Also,technologycausestheworshipexperiencetoisolatedandfor
entertainmentratherthanforreverenceandparticipation.Healsotalksabouthow
technologyhadredefinedandreshapedChristianitytofitintothemoldofmodernand
ourpersonalculture.Technologyhascausedustobelazy.Lastly,technologyprovidesa
distractionthatdrawsChristiansawayfromthemainmessageofChristianity.
"ThePrintingPress."ThePrintingPress.N.p.,n.d.Web.13Mar.2015.
Thisarticletalksabouthowtheprintingpressimpactedliteracyandsociety.Itdoesnot
talkabouttheimpacttheprintingpresshadonChristianity.Itisimportanttounderstand
theimpactsonliteracyandsocietybeforetheimpactsonChristianity.Theprintingpress
gavewritingaconsistentlookandfeel.Beforetheprintingpress,scribescopiedtextby
handwritingthem,thisleadtoinconsistentwritingandgrammar.Withtheconsistencyof
theprintingpress,thereaderscouldmoreeasilyinterprettheauthorstext.Moreover,
theconsistencyenhancedtheoverallreadingexperience.Theprintingpressincreased
literacybymakingprintaccessibleandavailabletothepublic.Booksorprintweremore
expensivepriortotheprintingpress.Theprintingthepressallowedbooksorprinttobe
massproduced,cuttingthecost.Withbooksandprintbeingmassproducedandcheaper,
thegeneralpublicstartedtoreadmore.Theprintingpresshadapositiveimpacton
educationalpractices.Theprintingpressprovidedpeoplewithanewcommunication
mediumthusallowingpoliticalandreligiousviewstobedisseminatedwidely.
"ThePrintingPress:ChristianityBecomesPersonalHumanitiesIIWorldHistory."
HumanitiesIIWorldHistoryThePrintingPressChristianityBecomesPersonalComments.N.p.,
n.d.Web.14Mar.2015.
This article talks about how the printing press impacted Christianity.
Prior to the printing press, only priests had Bibles. Citizens could only
hear and interpret the Bible from the priests. The printing press
allowed Bibles to be mass-produced quickly and cheaply. It allowed
citizens to buy Bibles for the first time. Once individuals received
Bibles, they began to interpret them in their own way, to connect with
GenerationYareleadingthewayinexperimentingwithsocialmedia.Technologyis
secondnaturetoGenerationY(underthirty).Theycanutilizetechnologyformany
purposes,includingsharingtheirfaith.ThebenefitsofChristiansusingsocialmedia
outweightherisks.