Confronting Technology: The Theology of Jacques Ellul - Couverture souple

Prior, Matthew T.

 
9781532671456: Confronting Technology: The Theology of Jacques Ellul
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1532671458 ISBN 13 : 9781532671456
Editeur : Pickwick Publications, 2020

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

Matthew T. Prior is an ordained minister in the Church of England and is Tutor and Lecturer in Ethics at St. Mellitus College, London, UK. He has an academic background in French language and literature and is a member of the International Jacques Ellul Society. This is his first book.

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Éditeur
Pickwick Publications
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1532671458
ISBN 13 
9781532671456
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
262
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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