For the Catholic, the revealed Word of God is not the Gutenberg Bible, not the King James Version. But the Protestant cannot but take a different view of the passing of preeminence of the printed book, because Protestantism was born with the printing press and seems to be passing with it. There again, the Catholic alone has nothing to fear from the rapidity of the changes in the media of communication. But national cultures have much to fear. In fact, it is hard to see how any national culture as such can long stand up to the new media of communication. ... It is not markets we now invade but the cultures and the minds of men. And this process is furthest advanced here in North America.
Marshall McLuhan, The Medium and the Light,
from a lecture delivered at St. Joseph's College,
West Hartford, CT, 1954
of course we need not be afraid, for we have been welcomed into the Church which has been built on the Rock!
ReplyDeleteso the rain will fall, the floods will come, the wind will blow and beat upon that (Church), but it will not fall for it has been built upon the Rock...
yeah yeah I know that's taking Scripture out of context but oh well. it still fits.