SHARED BIBLICAL VALUES IN ONLINE FAITH COMMUNITIES IN PANDEMIC CONDITIONS
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14833413Keywords:
values, faith community, the Trinity, the Internet, religious authorityAbstract
Shared Biblical Values in Online Faith Communities in Pandemic Conditions.
This study explores the ways in which a number of Christian believers have shared core Christian values in faith communities via the Internet, under pandemic conditions and in the context of an increasing tendency towards an individualistic society. What inspires them to seek biblical values seems to be the very natural need for fellowship and the multiple examples given both in the Old and the New Testaments. Although religious authority is undergoing transformation due to the impact of the Internet on religious communities, lay people generally cooperate in order to advance and translate biblical values in contemporary contexts.
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