Christian Ethics In A Technological Age
, by Brock BrianNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780802865175 | 0802865178
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/28/2010
Brain Brock is lecturer in moral and practical theology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He is the author of Singing the Ethos of God: On the Place of Christian Ethics in Scripture and has written extensively on medical ethics and disability theology.
Acknowledgments | p. viii |
Introduction: Christian Faith and Technological Artifacts | p. 1 |
New Technology, the Manager, and the Language of Technology Assessment | p. 10 |
The Moral Commitments of Technology Assessment | p. 15 |
Christian Theology and Technology Assessment | p. 18 |
Overview of the Book | p. 21 |
The Attempt to Claim Christ's Dominion | |
Martin Heidegger on Technology as a Form of Life | p. 31 |
The Sociality of Perception: Beyond Idealism and Empiricism | p. 33 |
Birth and Ascent of the Technological Form of Life | p. 39 |
Can We ôTameö Technology? | p. 48 |
Technology within the Law of Material Being | p. 51 |
Conclusion: Beyond the Cosmos as ôObjectö | p. 60 |
George Grant and the Technological Ideal | p. 66 |
Grant, Heidegger, and the Metaphysics of Technology | p. 66 |
Axioms of a Technological Age | p. 69 |
The Consequences of Technological Axioms | p. 85 |
Protest in a Technological Age: Sanity Is Not Statistical | p. 94 |
Conclusion: Creation, Boundaries, and Hubris | p. 99 |
Michel Foucault and the Habits of Technology | p. 102 |
Grant and Foucault: Enucleation and Problematization | p. 104 |
Revolutions in Punishment: From Drama to Docility | p. 107 |
The Contemporary Relevance of Foucault's Cultural Analysis | p. 125 |
Technology as Meaningful Experience | p. 129 |
Conclusion: Technology as and in Political Economy | p. 145 |
Summarizing Part I with a Case: Tabulating Fertility | p. 149 |
Technological Decision Making from the Inside | p. 162 |
Seeking Christ's Concrete Claim | |
Advent and the Renewal of the Senses | p. 167 |
What Is Moral Theology? Christ at the Center | p. 169 |
How Far Is Too Far? Moral Deliberation in a Technological Age | p. 187 |
Technology for Good and Evil | p. 191 |
Augustine's Two Cities | p. 193 |
Gift as Moral Heuristic | p. 201 |
Technology as Pride: A Society of Curiosity | p. 205 |
Theological Ontology and Moral Deliberation in the Work of Karl Barth | p. 211 |
The Recovery of Situated Difference: The Promise of Technology | p. 225 |
Conclusion: Sanctification as the Remaking of Rationality | p. 234 |
Political Reconciliation in the Community of Worship | p. 236 |
Bernd Wannenwetsch on Political Worship: Beyond Reactionism and Analogy | p. 239 |
Reconciliation as the Church's Life-Form | p. 246 |
Clashing Forms of Life? Political Technique and Ecclesial Authority: Romans 12:1-8 | p. 255 |
Trust in the Word as Basic Political Skill | p. 263 |
Mutual Representation and Reconciled Community | p. 270 |
Conclusion: Political Ethics and Nonpolitical Technological Questions | p. 288 |
Worship, Sabbath, and Work | p. 289 |
Karl Barth on Sabbath: Genesis 2:1-3 | p. 290 |
Worship and Work between Creation and New Creation | p. 295 |
Clashing Forms of Life? Work and Service | p. 302 |
Conclusion: Work as a Site of Faith Seeking Understanding | p. 318 |
Being Reconciled with Creation's Material Form | p. 320 |
Embracing Created Material Order as Gift | p. 322 |
Bodiliness in the Creation Narrative: Genesis 1:24-31 | p. 335 |
Clashing Forms of Life? The Eating Complex | p. 340 |
Clashing Forms of Life? The Sexual Complex | p. 360 |
Theological Analysis of the Case Study: Receiving Fertility | p. 364 |
Conclusion: Sociality and Materiality as a Site of Conflict | p. 373 |
Conclusion: An Ethos of Dwelling in the House of the Lord | p. 374 |
Demythologizing Technology Assessment | p. 374 |
The Humane Revolt of the God-Man | p. 379 |
Taking Hold of Life That Really Is Life | p. 387 |
Bibliography | p. 389 |
Index | p. 405 |
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