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Making Teenagers Aware of Their Creatureliness The technologies of relationship and a new sense of interior life: Making teenagers aware of their creatureliness Author: José Maria Brito Persistent link: http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:106931 This work is posted on eScholarship@BC, Boston College University Libraries. Boston College Electronic Thesis or Dissertation, 2012 Copyright is held by the author, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise noted. SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY AND MINISTRY – BOSTON COLLEGE The Technologies of Relationship and a New Sense of Interior Life Making Teenagers Aware of Their Creatureliness A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Sacred Theology Licentiate Degree (S.T.L.) From the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry BY: José Maria Brito, S.J. CO-MENTOR: DOMINIC DOYLE CO-MENTOR: THERESA O’KEEFE September 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................................... 3 1. WORD, TECHNOLOGY AND HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS ....................................................................... 5 1.1 Walter Ong’s Thought ......................................................................................................................... 5 1.1.1 Phenomenology of the Senses ....................................................................................................... 7 1.1.2 Interiorization of Technology ...................................................................................................... 18 1.1.3 World as View and World as Event ............................................................................................ 20 1.1.4 Word-as-Presence ........................................................................................................................ 22 1.2 Personal Synthesis: What to Keep from Ong’s Thought? ................................................................. 26 2. THE CULTURE OF SELF DISCLOSURE – Reflection on Teenager Reality in Ongian Terms ........ 29 2.1 Adolescence and Identity Formation ................................................................................................. 29 2.2 Technologies and Teenagers’ Interior Life ....................................................................................... 31 2.2.1 The Presence of the Word .......................................................................................................... 32 2.2.2 Interiorization of the Technologies of Relationship ................................................................... 38 2.2.3 A New Constellation of Sensory Apprehension ......................................................................... 44 2.3 Self: Gergen versus Taylor ................................................................................................................ 50 2.4 The Questions that Remain ............................................................................................................... 55 3. CHRISTIAN CONCEPT OF CREATURE: a Theological Basis to Address a Cultural Challenge ....... 57 3.1 In His/Her Most Remote Origin: God Recognized as Creator ............................................................ 57 3.1.1 Psalm 111 ................................................................................................................................... 60 3.1.2 Systematic Synthesis .................................................................................................................. 61 3.2 In His/Her Innermost Essence: Human Being as God’s Image .......................................................... 62 3.2.1 Human Being as Relational ......................................................................................................... 63 3.2.2 The Elusiveness of the Human Being .......................................................................................... 65 3.3 In His/Her Ultimate Goal: Human: Attracted by the Infinite .............................................................. 67 3.3.1 The Principle of Active Self-Transcendence .............................................................................. 68 1 3.3.2 The Principle and Foundation ..................................................................................................... 71 3.4 Christ: the Perfect Human Being ........................................................................................................ 73 3.4.1 Sharing the Divine Affiliation .................................................................................................... 74 3.5 Personal Synthesis .............................................................................................................................. 77 4. CONCLUSION: A New Sense of Interior Life ..................................................................................... 80 4.1 What is God Fostering in Teenagers’ Interior Life? .......................................................................... 81 4.2 What Can We Do? .............................................................................................................................. 84 4.2.1 Three Brief preambles ................................................................................................................ 84 4.2.2 What to propose? - An Apophatic Anthropology: Don’t catch me if you can .......................... 86 4.2.3 How to Propose? – Sacred Spaces of Value ............................................................................... 87 4.2.3.1 Go Deeper: Recognize the Human Questions .................................................................... 89 4.2.3.2 Look Outside: Do not Fear to Be a Neighbor ..................................................................... 91 4.2.3.3 Look Farther: Learning With Jesus to Say Abba ................................................................ 94 REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................................ 97 2 Introduction Technology is changing us. It has been doing so right from the beginning of humanity. Currently, several concerns arise from the way teenagers are using the technologies of relationship (e.g. social networks; cell phones; blogs). Despite the more or less wise use of such technology, all of us are affected by the technological changes and that influences our approach to an understanding of reality. We can never appreciate the meaning and the consequences of such changes for Christian life, unless we take a look into human consciousness and into culture. In this work I argue that Walter Ong’s concept of “interiorization of technology” is suitable to be used to explain the transformation of consciousness produced among teenagers by the use of the technologies of relationship. I will explain how teenagers’ identity is being shaped by such experience. I will narrow my attention to teenagers’ interior life. While being a way of carrying our contingency, technology can, paradoxically, remind us of our limits or hide them from us. From a Christian perspective such concealment would be tragic. Thus, accepting contingency as the place where the question of the origin of the world and the human being rises is important to deepen our experience of creatureliness and to preserve it from being diluted. The main goal of this thesis is to ascertain if teenagers’ inner life (and, consequently, their experience of creatureliness) is being challenged by the way they are interiorizing the technologies through which they are communicating. For this to be possible we need to verify how they are apprehending the reality of the world and themselves and to establish how their interior life is being shaped. Only by doing this can we achieve a relevant theological and pastoral proposal able to address teenagers’ present situation, as I intend to propose as the conclusion of this thesis. To make this possible some steps are needed. 3 In the first chapter I introduce one of the key concepts of this thesis: the “interiorization of technology.” This concept was coined by Walter Ong and allows us to understand how technologies shape human consciousness and how such changes need to be linked with the culture. I will follow Ong’s steps that explain the move from orality to literacy. Such a move assumes writing as a technology and allows us to understand how a specific technology is able to transform human consciousness and transform our inner life, the balance between insideness and outsideness. All this transforms the way human beings perceive themselves in the cosmos. As a way of reading the signs of the times, in the second chapter I point out how the interiorization of the technologies of relationship affect teenagers’ interior lives and their relationships. I will use Ong’s concepts exposed in the first chapter, applying them to what I describe as the culture of disclosure. By doing so I hope to start showing how their perception as creatures of God is being challenged. In order to prepare the theological and pastoral answer to the described situation, the third chapter points out some of the most significant features of the human being as a creature. This chapter gives special attention to the concept of the human being as intrinsically related to God. By doing so it underlines the human’s dependence on God, his or her interdependence with other humans and human’s irreducibility to his/her nature. By the end of this thesis I hope to have shown what
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