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Confronting Technology

by Matthew T Prior

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Pickwick Publications
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.4 cm

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We are living through a digital revolution which already touches every area of life and will continue to shape the future in as yet unforeseen ways. Digital technologies are an ordinary part of daily life, and yet they also present an unprecedented challenge to Christians to articulate a biblical, theological framework to navigate times of rapid change. The work of the French theologian Jacques Ellul is a theological time-bomb primed for times like these. Accounts of Ellul's career often divide off his sociology and theology, but this book argues that Ellul conceived a single project of bringing technology into confrontation with the Word of God, tackling the phenomenon he named technique, the pursuit of maximal power and efficiency implicit in the technological enterprise, with a profound depth of biblical and ethical insight. Centering himself on the apocalypse or revelation of Jesus Christ in history, Ellul offers a monumental, timely (though far from flawless) contribution to contemporary ethical debates about the uses and abuses of technologies. His work blazes a trail that Christians and all concerned for the future would do well to follow, as we avoid both the naivety of ""technological neutrality"" and the dread of ""technological determinism.""
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  • Author

    Matthew T Prior

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Pickwick Publications

  • Published

    March 2020

  • Weight

    355g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9781532671456

  • ISBN-10

    1532671458

  • Eden Code

    5225571

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