Virtual Reality Church as a New Mission Frontier in the Metaverse: Exploring Theological Controversies and Missional Potential of Virtual Reality Church

The combination of COVID-19 and the Fourth Industrial Revolution has brought an unprecedented new normal, which has affected all aspects of human life, including religious activities. As a consequence, church mission and different ministries have found themselves more dependent on media. Furthermore...

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Autor principal: Jun, Guichun (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Publicado: Sage 2020
En: Transformation
Año: 2020, Volumen: 37, Número: 4, Páginas: 297-305
Clasificaciones IxTheo:KAJ Época contemporánea
NBN Eclesiología
RJ Misión
ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies
Otras palabras clave:B Mission for digital natives
B Church 4.0
B Cybersociality and future church
B Ecclesial nature of virtual reality church
B Church and media
B Virtual reality church
B Church’s mission in the metaverse
B Ecclesiastical practices of virtual reality church
B Future mission of the church in the digital age
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Sumario:The combination of COVID-19 and the Fourth Industrial Revolution has brought an unprecedented new normal, which has affected all aspects of human life, including religious activities. As a consequence, church mission and different ministries have found themselves more dependent on media. Furthermore, the convergent digital technology continually develops augmented reality and virtual reality, in which churches are planted and continue to carry out their mission and ministries. Although virtual reality churches are new mission frontiers in the digital age, there are several theological issues from the conventional perspective of church ministry and mission. This paper aims to address the controversial theological issues and reflect on them from an ecclesiological perspective to explore a theological possibility to overcome the issues and to justify their mission and ministries in virtual reality.
ISSN:1759-8931
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Transformation
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0265378820963155