Christian Moral Theology in the Emerging Technoculture : From Posthuman Back to Human.

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Machines and gadgets not only weave the fabric of daily life, but more importantly embody philosophical and religious values which shape the contemporary moral vision-a vision that is often at odds with Christian convictions. This book critically examines those values, and offers a framework for how...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Waters, Brent
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2014.
Series:Ashgate science and religion series.
Subjects:
Christian ethics.
Theological anthropology > Christianity.
Technology > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Anthropologie théologique > Christianisme.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > Ethics.
Christian ethics
Technology > Religious aspects > Christianity
Theological anthropology > Christianity
Christliche Ethik
Moraltheologie
Techniksoziologie
Vie chrétienne > Anthropologie.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The philosophical background of the emerging technoculture
  • George Grant: illuminating the darkness as darkness
  • Hannah Arendt: mortality and natality
  • Albert Borgmann: devices and desires
  • Confession: admitting the darkness as darkness
  • Repentance: the renewing possibilities of second births
  • Amendment of life: desiring the good
  • The translucent self in an age of transparency: parasitic self-fulfillment
  • Creation into nothing: nihilistic power
  • Dissembling the other: consuming predation.

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