Surviving Technopolis: Essays on Finding Balance in Our New Man-Made Environments - Couverture rigide

Hunt, Arthur W

 
9781498265966: Surviving Technopolis: Essays on Finding Balance in Our New Man-Made Environments
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ISBN 10 : 1498265960 ISBN 13 : 9781498265966
Editeur : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2013

Synopsis

Technopolis has no end in view other than bigger, faster, newer, and more. While giving us many material benefits--at least in the short run--in its wake are spiritual loss, alienation, and devastation. These essays not only evaluate Technopolis, but also seek wisdom to cope with our new human-made environments. Positively stated, they offer suggestions on how to bring us back into balance. Some of our best wisdom in analyzing Technopolis can be found in the voices of the Christian humanists. Unlike Enlightenment humanism, which tends to be human-centered, Christian humanism is concerned with the role of humankind within God's created order. G. K. Chesterton, T. S. Eliot, J. R. R. Tolkien, and C. S. Lewis represent this tradition. They, and others like them, understood that technological progress with no clear telos obscures what Eliot called "the permanent things." Surviving Technopolis means restoring the things closest to us--those old identity-forming institutions of home, church, and community.

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À propos de l?auteur

Arthur W. Hunt III holds a PhD in Communication from The University of Southern Mississippi and a Master of Arts in Religion from Reformed Theological Seminary. He is the author of two books, The Vanishing Word: The Veneration of Visual Imagery in a Postmodern World (2003) and Surviving Technopolis: Finding Balance in Our New Man-Made Environments (2013). His work has been featured in The Christian Research Journal, Touchstone magazine, Salvo, Modern Age, Modern Reformation, Eurozine, The American Conservative, The Front Porch Republic, and Explorations in Media Ecology. He currently serves on faculty at Augustine School, a classical Christian school in Jackson, Tennessee.

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Éditeur
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1498265960
ISBN 13 
9781498265966
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
128
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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