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<p>Acknowledgements xi</p> <p>Introduction 1</p> <p>What’s this book about? 1</p> <p>What do we mean by Christianity? 2</p> <p>What do we mean by media? 4</p> <p>Media and the historical development of Christianity 7</p> <p><b>1 In the Beginning 10</b></p> <p>The social and media context 11</p> <p>Jesus in his media context 14</p> <p>Remaking Jesus in speech and performance 22</p> <p><b>2 Making Jesus Gentile 28</b></p> <p>Context: the media world of the Roman Empire 28</p> <p>Early Christian writing 30</p> <p>Paul and letter writing 32</p> <p>The end of the beginning 39</p> <p><b>3 The Gentile Christian Communities 42</b></p> <p>The appeal of Christianity 42</p> <p>Multimedia communities 43</p> <p>Christian writings 45</p> <p>The reception and circulation of Christian writings 56</p> <p>Resistance to writing 58</p> <p><b>4 Men of Letters and Creation of “The Church” 62</b></p> <p>The Catholic?]Orthodox brand 63</p> <p>Tertullian 68</p> <p>Cyprian 70</p> <p>Origen – the media magnate of Alexandria 72</p> <p>Writing out women 74</p> <p><b>5 Christianity and Empire 80</b></p> <p>Imperial patronage and imperial Christianity 80</p> <p>Councils, creeds, and canons 84</p> <p>Constructing time – Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History 90</p> <p>The scriptures as text and artifact 93</p> <p><b>6 The Latin Translation 99</b></p> <p>Latin roots 99</p> <p>After the fall 106</p> <p>Monasteries and manuscripts 110</p> <p>Written Latin and the consolidation of medieval Christendom 117</p> <p><b>7 Christianity in the East 125</b></p> <p>The Church of the East 125</p> <p>Islam 130</p> <p>Writing the voice 132</p> <p>Regulating the eyes 134</p> <p><b>8 Senses of the Middle Ages 141</b></p> <p>The medieval context 142</p> <p>Making time 143</p> <p>Seeing space 145</p> <p>Rituals and hearing 150</p> <p>Nice touch: relics, saints, and pilgrimage 154</p> <p><b>9 The New Millennium 162</b></p> <p>Marketing the Crusades 163</p> <p>Scholasticism and universities 168</p> <p>Cathedrals 173</p> <p>Catholic reform 175</p> <p>The Inquisition 180</p> <p><b>10 Reformation 187</b></p> <p>Printing and its precursors 187</p> <p>Martin Luther 191</p> <p>John Calvin 195</p> <p>Reworking the Bible 198</p> <p>The changing sensory landscape 200</p> <p>Catholic responses 207</p> <p>Ignatius of Loyola 209</p> <p><b>11 The Modern World 214</b></p> <p>The legacy of the Reformation 214</p> <p>Catholic mission 216</p> <p>The impact of print 219</p> <p>Evangelical Revivalism 223</p> <p>Protestant mission 232</p> <p><b>12 Electrifying Sight and Sound 237</b></p> <p>The technologies of the audiovisual 237</p> <p>Christianity and the twentieth?]century media world 240</p> <p>Mainline mediation 242</p> <p>The Evangelical Coalition 246</p> <p>Fundamentalism and Pentecostalism 254</p> <p><b>13 The Digital Era 261</b></p> <p>The empire of digital capitalism 261</p> <p>Digital practice 264</p> <p>Global Pentecostalism 270</p> <p>Media and Christian sexual abuse 276</p> <p>Tradition and change 279</p> <p>Conclusion 285</p> <p>References 293</p> <p>Index 311</p>

<p>"This is a book I've wanted to read for a long time, and I find it both enlightening and thought provoking in a positive sense. The book represents a way of writing the history of Christianity in a rather novel multi-perspective and contextualized manner. Technology, politics, economics, demographics, and scientific discoveries all play a role in how religion is transformed – but at the center of this transformation, according to Horsfield, is media." (<i>Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture</i>, 1 November 2015)</p> <p>"Horsfield's compelling and nuanced scholarship of integration traces the evolution of Christianity from an oral Jewish movement in the 1st century through epochs dominated by written, printed, electronic, and now digital media to become the world's largest religious faith with 2.2 billion followers." (<i>Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly</i> 2016)</p>

<p><b>Peter Horsfield</b> is Professor of Communication at RMIT University, Australia. From 1987-1996, he was Dean of the Uniting Church Theological Hall and Lecturer in Applied Theology in the United Faculty of Theology in Melbourne, Australia. His early study, <i>Religious Television: The American Experience</i> (2004) was influential in assessing the impact of the emerging phenomenon of televangelism in the U.S. From 1997-2005 he was a member of the International Study Commission on Media Religion and Culture. He has researched and published extensively in the area of the interaction of media and religion, with a particular focus on Christianity. He is the co-editor of several books, including <i>Emerging Research in Media, Religion and Culture</i> (2005) and <i>Belief in Media: Cultural Perspectives on Media and Christianity </i>(2004).</p>

<p>"This ambitious, resourceful, and clearly written book makes the major contribution of showing how fundamentally integrated religion and media always have been throughout the history of Christianity. The power of media – from writing to print, from imagery, music, and architecture to radio, film, and television – has been to make accessible what Christians experience in their faith. Horsfield properly locates the study of media at the heart of the study of the religion."<br />—<b>DAVID MORGAN, Duke University</b></p> <p>"Tracing the implications of the adoption of new media technologies into Christian modes of communication among believers and with the divine over a period of 2000 years, Peter Horsfield draws a fascinating and fresh picture of contestations, breaks, and reformations in the dynamic history of Christianity. This well-written, imaginative book does not only throw recent work on modern mass media and Christianity into historical relief, it also makes a convincing case for the fruitfulness of a media perspective to capture salient transition points that rearticulate the Christian tradition and reset its role and place in society."<br />—<b>BIRGIT MEYER, Utrecht University</b></p> <p><i>From Jesus to the Internet</i> is the first systematic survey of the historical relationship between Christianity and media. Although many see the relationship between religion and media as a distinctly modern phenomenon, in this book the scholar Peter Horsfield examines Christianity through its history as a mediated phenomenon, showing how profoundly it has been shaped by the many media forms used in embodying and spreading its stories.</p> <p>In a lively and engaging chronological narrative, the book demonstrates the ways in which Christianity’s beliefs, rituals, theological thought, institutional forms, economic views, and political systems have been conceptualized and developed over time as a result of its media practices. It takes a broad view of media, including communication technologies and industries as well as cultural and material practices. The narrative moves through all of the major periods in Christian history and includes coverage of oral cultures, the practices of Jesus, writing, printing, material practices, visual expressions, and the present digital era. With insights into some of Christianity’s most hotly debated contemporary issues, this ambitious and wide-ranging book provides an indispensable historical basis for this fast-developing interdisciplinary field.</p>

<p>"Tracing the implications of the adoption of new media technologies into Christian modes of communication among believers and with the divine over a period of 2000 years, Peter Horsfield draws a fascinating and fresh picture of contestations, breaks and reformations in the dynamic history of Christianity. This well-written, imaginative book does not only throw recent work on modern mass media and Christianity into historical relief, it also makes a convincing case for the fruitfulness of a media perspective to capture salient transition points that rearticulate the Christian tradition and reset its role and place in society."<br />—<b>Birgit Meyer, Utrecht University</b></p> <p>"This ambitious, resourceful, and clearly written book makes the major contribution of showing how fundamentally integrated religion and media always have been throughout the history of Christianity. The power of media—from writing to print, from imagery, music and architecture to radio, film, and television—has been to make accessible what Christians experience in their faith. Horsfield properly locates the study of media at the heart of the study of the religion."<br />—<b>David Morgan, Duke University</b></p>

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