iJesus: The Culture of God in a Digital World
£4.70
Every aspect of life in today’s world is affected by digital technology, be it the way we communicate, travel, or shop, or even how we identify ourselves.
Christians, believing that we are created by a living personal God who revealed himself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit and came to us in Jesus Christ, try to make sense of their faith in this digital jungle.
iJesus explores the relationship between the culture of God as Trinity in relation to our highly complex digital cultures and reflects on how we as followers and disciples of Jesus Christ can live in a world shaped by digital communication, connectivity and artificial intelligence.
In the culture of the Trinity, we see a God who is the source of hospitality and generosity in everything he does and in every way that he reacts with His creation.
Nadim Nassar gives a prophetic vision of our faith interacting and being lied out in the changing cultures around us and shows how God can make himself known and understood in a digital age.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Sacristy Press (15 Feb. 2023) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| File size | 686 KB |
| Text-to-Speech | Enabled |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
| X-Ray | Not Enabled |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Sticky notes | On Kindle Scribe |
| Print length | 165 pages |
| Page numbers source ISBN | 1789592550 |
by Julian Bond
This is a book worth reading and an easy read, there aren’t too many books about which this can be said. Reading the book is like listening to Nadim talk to the reader, this is how it was written – he spoke and his faithful amanuensis – Carina Dingemans – transcribed, during one or more covid lockdowns.
Nadim really is a unique writer, not just because his own personality and voice come straight off the page but because he is unfailingly positive in his outlook. So you know he means it when he does critique, rightly calling out institutional racism is one important example. It was a joy and a relief to read a Christian writer speaking positively about Islam and Muslims, as he says so often, and has made it his life’s mission, we love, we are not threatened or fearful.
I admit, that I wasn’t sure about the title or the theme when I first heard about it, there was a craze for putting ‘i’ in front of everything. He really does know his stuff, whether it is Star Trek and Babylon 5 (more please!) or digital gaming. I also had initial concerns that Jesus might end up being shoehorned, or artificially uploaded, into popular (digital) culture, this doesn’t happen either. He has some excellent reflections on Jesus, the Gospel and the confluence of human, divine and digital (could be both) cultures.
As a writer on Jesus myself, having lost hope in much existing writing on this human-divine figure, I recommend this book wholeheartedly.