Faith Hope And Love In The Technological Society
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| Author | : Franz A. Foltz |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 201 |
| Release | : 2018-07-31 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1532636253 |
Franz and Frederick Foltz examine how modern technology creates an environment that significantly affects Christianity by reducing the mysteries of faith to manageable techniques. The body of their work analyzes the effects of technology on the theological virtues of faith, hope, and love, the triad that believers have used for a common narrative to understand and express their thoughts and experiences. They begin by looking at how recent developments have brought us into a post-truth era by removing words from their context in nature, time, place, and community. Popular theologies such as the power of positive thinking, the laws of creation, the plan for salvation, and the prosperity gospel reflect this change by gearing all for efficiently getting what we want and ignoring tradition. The authors then examine each of the virtues separately, finding that faith has become a risk management tool that depends on confidence in systems rather than personal relationships, hope is defined as the expectation that our present desires shall be granted rather than a vision of the future, and love has become an intimacy that provides escape from the real world and community rather than a self-denying care for them. Finally, the authors take a look at some appropriate responses.
| Author | : Franz A. Foltz |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2018-07-31 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1532636261 |
Franz and Frederick Foltz examine how modern technology creates an environment that significantly affects Christianity by reducing the mysteries of faith to manageable techniques. The body of their work analyzes the effects of technology on the theological virtues of faith, hope, and love, the triad that believers have used for a common narrative to understand and express their thoughts and experiences. They begin by looking at how recent developments have brought us into a post-truth era by removing words from their context in nature, time, place, and community. Popular theologies such as the power of positive thinking, the laws of creation, the plan for salvation, and the prosperity gospel reflect this change by gearing all for efficiently getting what we want and ignoring tradition. The authors then examine each of the virtues separately, finding that faith has become a risk management tool that depends on confidence in systems rather than personal relationships, hope is defined as the expectation that our present desires shall be granted rather than a vision of the future, and love has become an intimacy that provides escape from the real world and community rather than a self-denying care for them. Finally, the authors take a look at some appropriate responses.
| Author | : J. Edward Carothers |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 1974 |
| Genre | : Christianity |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Egbert Schuurman |
| Publisher | : Clements Pub. |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2003-01-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9781894667289 |
Technology has advanced more in recent decades than in any other era in human history. As Christians, how should we approach science and technology? In Faith and Hope in Technology, Egbert Schuurman offers a responsible and biblical approach to working in the areas science and technology, shedding light on the nature, benefits and problems of Western technology from within his profound commitment to a biblical understanding of human life under God. "Dr. Schuurman's Faith and Hope in Technology . will be of significant help to those Christians who are struggling with issues raised by biotechnology, cybernetics, and the increasing technological character of contemporary life." -Charles C. Adams, Dordt College "Schuurman offers a much needed prophetic critique of the autonomous development of modern technology. Carefully documenting the pervasive character of the scientific technical quest for utility and control, he arrives at the inescapable conclusion that modern technology does not deliver the promised freedom of redemption, but instead enslaves us and degrades the society in which we live. Drawing on the best insights of the Reformational tradition, this fine exposition offers a viable alternative." -Hans Boersma, Trinity Western University EGBERT SCHUURMAN is Professor in Reformational Philosophy at the Technological Universities of Delft and Eindhoven and at the Agricultural University of Wageningen, Netherlands. He is also a member of the Senate of the Dutch Parliament. His other books include Technology and the Future: A Philosophical Challenge (1980); Christians in Babel (1987); The Future: Our Choice or Gods Gift? (1990).
| Author | : Murray Jardine |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : |
Our inability to make ethical sense of technology is at the root of a crisis. This book advocates a Christianity that fully understands technology, its responsibilities, and its possibilities.
| Author | : Lancelot Rupert Shilton |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 11 |
| Release | : 1973 |
| Genre | : Church and the world |
| ISBN | : 9780869450758 |
| Author | : Daisy Whitham Bovard |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 66 |
| Release | : 196? |
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| Author | : Marva J. Dawn |
| Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2003-03-31 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1611644445 |
In this prophetic call to faithful Christian living, Marva Dawn identifies the epidemic socio-cultural attitudes that destroy hope in our modern lives. Because affluent persons don't know what to value--how to choose what's important and weed out the rest--we remain dissatisfied with what we have and are compelled to want more. Dawn demonstrates, however, how Christians can organize their lives to live in ways that allow them to love God and neighbor and, in the process, alleviate the despair in their lives and in the lives of others in the world.
| Author | : Starr Daily (pseud.) |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 143 |
| Release | : 1960 |
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| Author | : Jacques Ellul |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 531 |
| Release | : 2021-07-27 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 0593315685 |
As insightful and wise today as it was when originally published in 1954, Jacques Ellul's The Technological Society has become a classic in its field, laying the groundwork for all other studies of technology and society that have followed. Ellul offers a penetrating analysis of our technological civilization, showing how technology—which began innocuously enough as a servant of humankind—threatens to overthrow humanity itself in its ongoing creation of an environment that meets its own ends. No conversation about the dangers of technology and its unavoidable effects on society can begin without a careful reading of this book. "A magnificent book . . . He goes through one human activity after another and shows how it has been technicized, rendered efficient, and diminished in the process.”—Harper's “One of the most important books of the second half of the twentieth-century. In it, Jacques Ellul convincingly demonstrates that technology, which we continue to conceptualize as the servant of man, will overthrow everything that prevents the internal logic of its development, including humanity itself—unless we take necessary steps to move human society out of the environment that 'technique' is creating to meet its own needs.”—The Nation “A description of the way in which technology has become completely autonomous and is in the process of taking over the traditional values of every society without exception, subverting and suppressing these values to produce at last a monolithic world culture in which all non-technological difference and variety are mere appearance.”—Los Angeles Free Press
