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Prologue: Church, Restore Your Imagination

PART 01.
Christianity in the Tower of Babel

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Christianity that has lost its imagination
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'Image' turns a message into an event
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What is the current situation in Christianity?
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Christianity thrown into the giant Tower of Babel
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The Grammar of Popular Culture and the Non-Mythological Myths of the Secular World
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Stories, the source of imagination

PART 02.
A digital paradise where money can buy you access

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digital religion
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Digital Hell _ White Christmas (Black Mirror Season 2)
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Digital Heaven _ San Junipero (Black Mirror Season 3)
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Desire in the Digital Heaven_ Striking Vipers (Black Mirror Season 5)
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Mechanical Inhumans _ Ghost in the Shell and Cyberpunk: Edgerunner
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Homo Deus _ Altered Carbon
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Desire, the Body, Technology, and the Gospel

PART 03.
God is no longer God, and religion is no longer religion.

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Evil that is better than good
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The Powerless God and Good Evil _ My Demon
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God exists only in human worship _ American God
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Christianity thrives on lies_ Messiah
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Religion thrives on the public's fear of hell.
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Religion thrives on human ignorance_ Chaos
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Christianity Exploits Humans _ Parasite: The Grey
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The Church as a Space of Control and Discipline _ Kind Ms. Geumja
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Is God a terrifying being?

PART 04.
A distorted image of the post-Christian era

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Hypocritical Christians_ Suriname and DP
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Christians Who Fell Into Confirmation Bias _ Mask Girl
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The Glory of the Disgusting Christians
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The Strange Fear of Religious Language _ Glitch
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Christians are the type of people who cannot communicate _ Murderers O Difficult
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Out of the world of desire

PART 05.
Save the Earth

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Aliens created humans _ Prometheus
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Earth is just a giant laboratory _ Dark City
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Forces Attacking Earth_ The Three-Body Problem
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A modern-day "transformation story," Monster Apocalypse _ Sweet Home
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A Desperate World Without God _ Lucifer
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Post-Apocalypse _ Snowpiercer
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Escape to a New World _ The Youngest Son of a Chaebol Family
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A story about the end

PART 06.
A New Language for the Church

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Media Literacy for Christian Content
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Access to Media: Are There Christian Works?
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Interpreting the Media: Advice for Christian Film Criticism
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Media Planning: Practicing to Become a Storytelling Church
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A Guide for Preachers

Epilogue: Church Ministry as a New Expression

A must-read for the media age that clearly explains the crises and opportunities of Christianity.
Combining theological reflection and media literacy, presenting the coordinates of Christianity within culture.
A Roadmap for Restoring the Distorted Image of Christianity and the Church's Cultural Imagination
A Guide to Media Discernment and Utilization for Christians Lost in the Media Flood
Beyond simple media criticism, we propose a new way of communicating, restoring the essence of the church.

Church, restore your imagination

We live in a time when we consume more information than ever before.
According to one newspaper article, in 2020, an average of 2.5 billion gigabytes (GB) of digital information was produced every day, and it is estimated that by 2025, 175 trillion gigabytes of information will be produced every day.
This means that information has increased by approximately 70,000 times in just 5 years.
It is certain that the amount of information produced will increase even more rapidly due to the recent emergence of generative artificial intelligence.
In fact, most of the information that pours out like this has little to do with our daily lives.
However, information overload will further increase the ambiguity of knowledge.
So we need a place to anchor our faith and knowledge.
I believe that anchorage is in the Bible, the source of imagination.

The world is full of all kinds of interesting and fun things.
Like a spring that never dries up no matter how much you consume, something interesting pops up from somewhere.
People wake up, pick up their smartphones, and start their day.
Even when washing our faces and brushing our teeth, eating, taking the subway to work, driving, taking the short walk to school, taking a break, on the way home from work, and even in the bus on the way to the academy, we spend most of our time with our smartphones and consuming content on them until we go to bed.
At this point, smartphones are already the masters, and in a world dominated by smartphones, humans may be working like slaves.
Humans live by working hard to sacrifice electricity to smartphones.
If so, we need the red pill from The Matrix.
Smartphones are already a 'pseudo-god' and a 'false-god' that dominates this era.
As people watch songs, movies, and dramas streaming from their smartphones, they lose their ability to reflect and enter a state of slavery without even realizing it.

I believe that the reason Christianity has fallen under the absolute influence of modern culture is because of the loss of the ability to think.
Many Christians have lost their identity and exist only as 'consumers' under the neoliberal order.
We have moved beyond the era of 'Sunday Christians' who only go to church on Sundays and are now living as 'bench warmer Christians' who warm up the church pews with their butts once a week.
Even with the Bible, the source of imagination, we live as people who can handle the world without any imagination.
A Christian whose imagination is suppressed cannot dream of the kingdom of God.
They just live a life of superficial Christian living according to the image and identity given to them by the world.

This book aims to restore imagination to a church that has lost it, and to restore the cross, which is ridiculed and scorned, to the realm of media.
I hope this book will serve as a small antidote to free the imaginations of Christians struggling with postmodern apathy and nihilism from the world.
We have a duty to speak of God, who shines in all the beauty of the world.