The Russell Moore Show Moore to the Point: The Oral Majority
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May 26, 2025 Explore the hidden threats facing the church beyond common misconceptions. Discover how the shift from oral traditions to digital interactions is reshaping truth and identity. Delve into the balance between personal faith and the collective experience within evangelicalism. This conversation emphasizes the importance of genuine encounters with God in a distracted world.
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Digital Orality Threatens Faith
- The real threat to evangelical Christianity is a shift in how we perceive truth due to digital orality, not just secularization or moral scandals.
- This shift affects not only what we see but how we see it, changing personal faith into tribal identity performance.
Media Shapes Human Consciousness
- Historical shifts in human consciousness, like the Axial Age, were driven by changes in media forms.
- Media change shapes how humans perceive themselves and the world, from orality to literacy to now digital orality.
Shift From Literacy to Digital Orality
- We are moving from a literate culture to "digital orality," where communication behaves more like chant and reaction than reflection.
- Truth is performed for the tribe's resonance rather than discovered, fragmenting individuals into identity-based consumers.