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Tag: Faith Hope and Love in the Technological Society
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Lesson 15: The Beloved Community
Read MORE: Lesson 15: The Beloved CommunityI have been trying to show that our visions of the future impact the way we live in the present. The responses I have been receiving reflect the discussion that has taken place ever since the first century. They range…
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Lesson 14: The Just Society
Read MORE: Lesson 14: The Just SocietyThe Just Society is the second vision on which our hope is built. In it, God promises he will bring the day when all people will treat one another fairly. The promise goes beyond fairness, however. It involves a distributive…
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Lesson 13: The Peaceable Kingdom
Read MORE: Lesson 13: The Peaceable KingdomChristian hope is based on God’s promises about his future actions. The resulting visions inspire our loving actions in the present. Isaiah’s beautiful picture of the Peaceable Kingdom serves as the model for the first vision. Its promise addresses one…
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Lesson 12: Christian Hope (1)
Read MORE: Lesson 12: Christian Hope (1)The visions of the future associated with Christian hope are quite different than those of technology. Like every proclamation of the Gospel, they call believers to loving action in the present time. The two technological visions that Franz and I…
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Lesson 11: Hope (Part 2)
Read MORE: Lesson 11: Hope (Part 2)Last week, I critiqued the picture of the Technium that one of the main characters in Dan Brown’s latest novel, Origin, predicts will begin in 2050. The Technium would be the perfect setting for a post-truth age. There is no…
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Lesson 10: Hope
Read MORE: Lesson 10: HopeA friend suggested Dan Brown’s latest novel, Origin, deals with science challenging religion much as our book does. When I took a look, it was obvious Edmund Kirsch, one of the main protagonists, is based on the futurist Ray Kurzweil whom…
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Lesson 9: Faith (Part 2)
Read MORE: Lesson 9: Faith (Part 2)Last week I described faith as trusting the God found in the common story proclaimed by the Christian community. I boiled down that Gospel to God’s promise to be active in history, rescuing the creation from self-destruction and especially, humanity…
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Lesson 8: Faith
Read MORE: Lesson 8: FaithOne way to read the Enlightenment Project is to see it placing decision making in the hands of individual persons rather than established authorities. Integral to this is investing power in knowledge tested against reality and experience instead of laws…
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Lesson 7: Faith, Hope, and Love
Read MORE: Lesson 7: Faith, Hope, and LoveOne of the major challenges confronting the Church is how we should be proclaiming the Gospel in this new electronic age. Last week, I suggested the first big step to resolving this question is gathering believers in person-to-person conversations. To…
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Lesson 6: Christian Words in the Electronic Age
Read MORE: Lesson 6: Christian Words in the Electronic AgeScholars usually speak of 3 momentous stages of language: the spoken, written, and electronic word. Each has distinctive characteristics that most of us readily recognize. Each has consequences for religion as well as culture. In the age of the spoken…
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So forgiveness pre-requires understanding the mistakes of the past? here hear re this opposing this me-first, America-first, white-first, male-first approach>…
An extremely timely topic. Thanks, Fritz!