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Weekly lessons in theology and public life • Since 2011
Tag: Modern Technology
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Lesson 5: Words
Read MORE: Lesson 5: WordsEven the ancients understood the essential role language plays for humanity. Genesis 1 acknowledges a rather sophisticated grasp of this when it portrays God using speech to create all things. It appears to build on the realization that speaking is…
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Lesson 4: The Loss of Community and Tradition
Read MORE: Lesson 4: The Loss of Community and TraditionThe online comments have represented the two primary responses I have been getting to the first chapters in the book. The first, voiced by Lupe, Paul, and Don, rather powerfully express how people have used God’s Word to oppress and…
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Lesson 3: Online Christian Communities
Read MORE: Lesson 3: Online Christian CommunitiesI always shudder when theologians predict we shall all be worshipping in online churches before long. I imagine they are trying to show that they are on the cutting edge of history. However, I doubt if they have given much…
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Lesson 2: Technology as a Biblical Power
Read MORE: Lesson 2: Technology as a Biblical PowerLast week, I described our life in a technological society that integrates tools and techniques in sophisticated all-pervasive systems. Although these systems have brought us tremendous benefits, they have also created an environment that pretty much demands compliance with their…
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Lesson 1: Technology
Read MORE: Lesson 1: TechnologyOne of the theses of our book is that modern science-based technology has created a society that offers a new kind of challenge to Christian thought and practice. In the past, we thought of technology primarily as using tools to…
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Introduction: The Blessed Ambiguity of Words
Read MORE: Introduction: The Blessed Ambiguity of WordsThis series follows some of the thoughts in Faith, Hope, and Love in the Technological Society, the book that my son, Franz, and I recently wrote. One of its main theses is that God speaks to us when members of…
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Lesson 8: Technology and International Corporations
Read MORE: Lesson 8: Technology and International CorporationsOne of the goals of the Christian voice is to uncover the truth that society ignores. For instance, it should acknowledge the role modern technology and international corporations play in monetary wealth becoming the only standard of our culture. The…
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Lesson 5: Technology
Read MORE: Lesson 5: TechnologyNo matter how many traditional religious and ethical arguments one group makes, a second group maintains the primary function of both ethics and religion should be reducing and eliminating suffering. If technology offers us a way to do that, we…
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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!