DISCUSSION THEMES

What is the way the ‘message’ is sent and what is the way in which the ‘message’ is received? How far does it depend on the spiritual/ecclesiastical experience of the user?

Pastoral care over the Internet from the point of view of science (psychiatry): How is the ‘message’ understood over a digital medium when someone has depression? How does such a sufferer view a site that transmits ‘joy’?

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Digital and natural life- digital anthropology

How the notion of ‘Virtual Reality’ is linked to the concept of ‘virtual sanctity’, of a ‘virtual spiritual life’ and of ‘virtual relationships’

The educational role of the Church through the Internet, in assisting people to orientate themselves, interprets, in a critical way, the phenomena of our times and provides the key for a reading of the various situations in which people can find themselves in the new, digital eco-system

The Internet

The Internet is a realm where inter-personal relations can be formed and multiplied to an extent that was once unimaginable

The Internet
The era of “here and now”

The new forms of relationships are, by and large, horizontal and this translates into an absence of ‘fathers’. This is why the Church has engaged in a dialogue with this ‘world

The era of “here and now”
Brain vs Heart

Does the Internet address the brain rather than the heart? Is the Internet a ‘rationalization’ of the pastoral relationship?

Brain vs Heart
New Challenges

The digital revolution affects the way we think. Does it also affect the way we ‘believe’?

New Challenges
The common denominator

The encounter between niptic anthropology, pastoral psychology and the psycho-sciences, with digital living as the common denominator. From spiritual and psychological problems to the search for pastoral and therapeutic proposals

The common denominator
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