Resource Tag: Technology
AI and a Possible Renaissance for Christian Higher Education
The early Greeks saw the essence of education as Paideia: the process of forming a whole person into an ideal…
Our Post-modern Vanity: the Cult of Efficiency and the Regress to the Boundary of the Animal World.
This essay argues that through a new and radical relationship with digital technologies that are oriented towards networking and automaticity,…
Technology and Freedom: Pope Benedict XVI on Faith, Reason, and Politics
Pope Benedict XVI connects the problem of technology to the question of how human beings have chosen to employ their…
A HYDRA‐LOGICAL APPROACH: ACKNOWLEDGING COMPLEXITY IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY.
Scholarship has grown increasingly nuanced in its grappling with the intersections of religion, science, and technology but requires a new…
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…
THE FAUST CHALLENGE: SCIENCE AS DIABOLIC OR DIVINE.
The Faust motif provides an opportunity to explore the spectrum of attitudes among Christians toward science and technology by placing…
The Cyborg as an Interpretation of Culture-Nature.
The idea of "nature" performs an important cultural work. The cyborg-nature is an attempt to free ourselves from the features…
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…
Technology and Human Becoming.
Technology is a mirror that reflects human nature and intentions: (1) we want certain things done and we want tools…
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…
From Commodification to the Common Good: Reconstructing Science, Technology, and Society.
Radder is a philosopher of science and technology, who has always had a wide interest in the links among science,…