Comments on: Flickering Pixels – Group Blogging Project – Chapter 14 http://churchm.ag/flickering-pixels-%e2%80%93-group-blogging-project-%e2%80%93-chapter-14/ Exploring the Intersection of Church and Technology Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:17:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Adam_S http://churchm.ag/flickering-pixels-%e2%80%93-group-blogging-project-%e2%80%93-chapter-14/#comment-41651 Adam_S Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:21:14 +0000 http://churchcrunch.com/?p=6012#comment-41651 Many of the original universities were set up during the time that Hipps says was driven by right brained people. Aquinas and others helped get thought going that helped move Western culture toward the enlightenment. Aquinas was several hundred years before Guttenberg. While that doesn't destroy Hipps basic argument, as with much of the rest of this book, it does temper it a bit. I think it can be argued that the advent of the scholastics (well before the printing press) was really what started the move toward the left brain. If you have ever read some of the works of the scholastics you will know it is left brained stuff. It isn't organized like we would organize, but it is clearly cerebral. Many of the original universities were set up during the time that Hipps says was driven by right brained people. Aquinas and others helped get thought going that helped move Western culture toward the enlightenment. Aquinas was several hundred years before Guttenberg. While that doesn't destroy Hipps basic argument, as with much of the rest of this book, it does temper it a bit. I think it can be argued that the advent of the scholastics (well before the printing press) was really what started the move toward the left brain. If you have ever read some of the works of the scholastics you will know it is left brained stuff. It isn't organized like we would organize, but it is clearly cerebral.

]]> By: @phillipgibb http://churchm.ag/flickering-pixels-%e2%80%93-group-blogging-project-%e2%80%93-chapter-14/#comment-41652 @phillipgibb Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:18:27 +0000 http://churchcrunch.com/?p=6012#comment-41652 I can almost understand that most of Christendom - if not all; b4 the print age, was driven by heavy spiritualism, imagery, and stories of wonder as well as fear. It was most likely a completely Right Brained period. And as Shane explains - the Print age brought order, long complex messages and theology - Left Brain. Maybe the Right Brain is coming home with all the new media around. Yet not in a completely segregated way, buy in a hand in hand way with the Left. So yeah, the most successful churches will be those that use both - imagination, creativity, new media, truth, order, video, images, the drummer killing the cymbals, theology, relevant, contextual, spiritual and lesson based. I can almost understand that most of Christendom – if not all; b4 the print age, was driven by heavy spiritualism, imagery, and stories of wonder as well as fear. It was most likely a completely Right Brained period. And as Shane explains – the Print age brought order, long complex messages and theology – Left Brain. Maybe the Right Brain is coming home with all the new media around. Yet not in a completely segregated way, buy in a hand in hand way with the Left.
So yeah, the most successful churches will be those that use both – imagination, creativity, new media, truth, order, video, images, the drummer killing the cymbals, theology, relevant, contextual, spiritual and lesson based.

]]> By: anivus http://churchm.ag/flickering-pixels-%e2%80%93-group-blogging-project-%e2%80%93-chapter-14/#comment-41650 anivus Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:10:36 +0000 http://churchcrunch.com/?p=6012#comment-41650 scbubba I struggled with that at first as well... and I went back and reread that he, Shane, thought that it could be used as a metaphor for his idea of the right brain left brain thing. My left brain still didn't like it... but my right brain loved the idea :). scbubba I struggled with that at first as well… and I went back and reread that he, Shane, thought that it could be used as a metaphor for his idea of the right brain left brain thing. My left brain still didn't like it… but my right brain loved the idea :) .

]]> By: SCBubba http://churchm.ag/flickering-pixels-%e2%80%93-group-blogging-project-%e2%80%93-chapter-14/#comment-41649 SCBubba Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:02:33 +0000 http://churchcrunch.com/?p=6012#comment-41649 I really likes this chapter for what Hipps had to say about brain balance and how the photograph brought the right brain back into the story. I haven't done any research on the subject, nor do I recall much from history classes on the 15th-18th centuries. So, I can't really point to what things looked like artistically during those times. At this point, I'll take his word for it. What I didn't exactly dig in this chapter was the use of the Prodigal Son story as an illustration of left/right brain dominance and balance. I think it was too much of a reach to try to fit it. Overall, this was a really good chapter and made up for some weaker ones previously, Great post! I really likes this chapter for what Hipps had to say about brain balance and how the photograph brought the right brain back into the story. I haven't done any research on the subject, nor do I recall much from history classes on the 15th-18th centuries. So, I can't really point to what things looked like artistically during those times. At this point, I'll take his word for it.

What I didn't exactly dig in this chapter was the use of the Prodigal Son story as an illustration of left/right brain dominance and balance. I think it was too much of a reach to try to fit it.

Overall, this was a really good chapter and made up for some weaker ones previously,

Great post!

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