THE VILLAGE GREEN.
The article presents the views of leading Christians on new technologies that hold the most promise and the most peril…
Resource Tag: Religion & science
TECHNO-SECULARISM AND“REVEALED RELIGION”: SOME PROBLEMS WITH CAIAZZA’S ANALYSIS.
Instead of focusing my remarks on John Caiazza's interesting and important thesis about the way in which modern technology is…
WHOM TO BLAME FOR THE CHARGE OF SECULARIZATION?
In the last century science and technology have been viewed as guilty of contributing to the modern secularization process and…
Religion/Technology, Not Theology/Science, as the Defining Dichotomy.
Science and religion are incommensurable: one cannot use centimeters to measure volume. Science’s proper cognate is theology. Science and theology…
Human Meaning in a Technological Culture
Technology raises important religious issues and not only moral ones. Given that technology is about transforming reality, these issues are…
“Playing God? Yes!” Religion in the Light of Technology.
If we appeal to God when our technology (including medicine) fails, we assume a “ God of the gaps.” It…
INTRODUCTION TO ‘THE ENERGY TRANSITION: RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES’.
Energy typically is discussed in terms of science, technology, economics, and politics. Little attention has been given to fundamental religious…
Protecting God from Science and Technology: How Religious Criticisms of Biotechnologies Backfire.
Many religious critics argue that biotechnology (such as cloning and genetic engineering) intrudes on God’s domain, or plays God, or…
AN ENERGY PRIMER: FROM THERMODYNAMICS TO THEOLOGY.
Scientific, technological, ethical, and religious issues confronting the human prospect are emerging as we encounter the inevitable shift from fossil…
RETHINKING THE SECULAR: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND RELIGION TODAY.
Contemporary tensions between science and religion cannot simply be seen as a manifestation of an eternal tension between reason and…
THE SACRED, NATURE, AND TECHNOLOGY.
Bronislaw Szerszynski's Nature, Technology and the Sacred prompts a short reflection on the meaning of “the sacred. ” Although it…
GOD VERSUS TECHNOLOGY? SCIENCE, SECULARITY, AND THE THEOLOGY OF TECHNOLOGY.
In debate with John Caiazza, we clarify the meaning of the terms technology and secular, arguing that technology is not…
ATHENS, JERUSALEM, AND THE ARRIVAL OF TECHNO-SECULARISM.
Western civilization historically has tried to balance secular knowledge with revealed religion. Science is the modern world's version of secular…
SCIENTISM AND TECHNOLOGY AS RELIGIONS.
Jacques Ellul, by far the most significant author in the serious discussions on the interface between religion and technology, is…
BIOTECHNOTHEOLOGY AND DEMYTHOLOGIZATION OF STEM-CELL RESEARCH.
Biotechnology deals not only with new types of therapies for preventing and curing diseases but also with the creation of…