Towards Friendship-Shaped Communities: A Practical Theology of Friendship. Anne-Marie Ellithorpe. Читать онлайн. Newlib. NEWLIB.NET

Автор: Anne-Marie Ellithorpe
Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited
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isbn: 9781119756965
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ways. While patterns of friendship and opportunities for friendship are being shaped by new technologies, the long-term impact of these technologies on friendship patterns and opportunities remains to be seen. Currently, both benefits and challenges are evident.

      Mobile phones play a role in organizing, planning, and celebrating friendship activities, yet prove to be a distraction during face-to-face time. “Fear of missing out” (FOMO) contributes towards attentiveness to digital communication at the expense of in-person communication. Paradoxically, friends can be hyper-vigilant in their attention to texts from one another when apart yet lack attentiveness to one another when they are together.

      What Theological, Ethical, and Spiritual Dimensions Does Friendship Have?

      Throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first century, the friend has been identified or portrayed in a variety of ways by Christian authors, theologians and otherwise, including as a model of the neighbor, a model for Christian love, a cornflower in the wheat field, a support in the struggle against evil, and as unnecessary yet invaluable. Whereas some Christians identified friendship as an ethical relationship, or as having ethical value, others discounted its ethical significance. For some, the recognition of friendship’s importance was solidified through the experience of war.