Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Blog 4: Catholic Tradition Then & Now as Religious Backstory

In blog post number 4 you are asked to reflect on how Catholic perceptions of community, authority structures OR approaches to text  have changed over time.  This correlates to the first part of the Religious Social Shaping of Technology Approach which asks researchers to consider how certain aspect of religious history and tradition may inform and influence their beliefs about media. In blog post 3 you were asked to explore one of these categories.  In this new blog post you will select another of these categories to reflect on. 

Please identify which category you are talking about and how you see Catholics as defining and understanding this category in your topic sentence. Your blog posts should also offer a definition/description of this category  that draws on readings you have done for class and/or material from class lectures. 

Also your discussion should engage with two images.  You are to select and post two images, one that reflect ancient or historical understanding of the Catholic view of texts/community/authority and one that represents contemporary manifestations or understandings of texts/community/authority. At least one of these images should come from somewhere in Florence, either images from the Uffizi or other sites you have previously visited.

This blog post is being used as a way to  help you reflect and engage in research on topics you are being asked to integrate into Essay 1.

Happy Blogging