This paper will discuss some possible results of the developing dominance of electronically
mediated communication1 on the practice of theology, focusing on ways
digital communications allow, or encourage, us to develop once again features of
theologising that were more prominent in earlier times. Peter Horsfield suggested
that in some respects digital media return features of orally mediated culture to the
modern world. I will play with three metaphors from Jewish life and history as
models for changes of practice that the new forms of mediation suggest or even
require.