Postdigital Mediation of Transcendence

When he saw a piece of art that moved him, he would painstakingly set up his picture so that it captured his experience of that piece of art. [...]while my Lutheran Christian tradition is often understood as being text-based, I have suggested (Trozzo 2019) that the Lutheran understanding of the Word of God is actually better understood as addressing how the divine can be mediated through language—spoken and written—in a healing manner into human experience. French phenomenologist Jean-Luc Marion (1991) has built an important bridge into philosophy in this area in considering idols and icons in his argument for finding surplus meaning beyond a text. [...]the encounter between a viewer and the idol is thought by the viewer to be a subject capturing an object in its sight, thereby marking a distinction between the two, but is in fact primarily a means of narcissistic self-projection. Central to these various Christian theological ruminations on the mediation of the divine into human experience are the themes of healing and justice.