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The making and unmaking of technological society : how Christianity can save modernity from itself / Murray Jardine.
Van Pelt Library BR115.T42 J37 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jardine, Murray, 1954-
- Series:
- Christian practice of everyday life
- The Christian practice of everyday life
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technology--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Technology.
- Christian sociology.
- Christian ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 304 pages ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Technological society
- Place of Publication:
- Grand Rapids, Mich. : Brazos Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- The advance of modern technology is certainly ambiguous. It has promised less work and more leisure, but we actually work longer hours than premodern peasants and villagers. Present-day Western societies are facing a moral crisis and our inability to make ethical sense of technology is at the root. Murray Jardine shows how Christianity fostered an ethic of progress that led to our technological expertise. However, Christians never fully grasped the implications of technological progress and failed to create an ethic that embraced unconditional grace. Jardine advocates a Christianity that fully understands technology, its responsibilities, and its possibilities.
- Contents:
- The evolution of liberal capitalist democracy
- Classical liberalism and the early industrial economy
- Reform liberalism and the late industrial economy
- Neoclassical liberalism and the postindustrial economy
- The crisis of liberal capitalist democracy
- Society before Christianity : the ancient pagan world
- Morality before Christianity : classical Greek rationalism
- The cosmological and anthropological revolution of the biblical narrative
- The origins of the modern crisis in Christianity's political failure
- Contemporary responses to the modern crisis
- Constructing Christian community I : speech and the human place
- Constructing Christian community II : physical place, work, and death
- Conclusion : Christianity, technology, and human destiny.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-304).
- ISBN:
- 1587430703
- OCLC:
- 53814191
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