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Title: Power Failure: Christianity in the Culture of Technology by Albert Borgmann ISBN: 1-58743-058-4 Publisher: Brazos Press Pub. Date: May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Summary: A Reasonable Religious Response to Technology
Comment: Borgmann lucidly explicates the occluding nature of technology in this brief treatise. He argues that the possibility of a rich public life of celebration and personal life of focal practices are hidden by the disengaging nature of technology, and thereby stips life of fundamental meaning. In this way, technology is not value-neutral, but neither is it inevitable. Commodification has made a promise of liberation that it is unable to keep. But there are contingent aspects of social and political life that remain open to fundamental choices, which can lead us to engagement with our reality. It is these contingent areas that the concept of grace, informed by Christian concepts of the Eucharist and the Word of God, can penetrate and bring meaning. For Borgmann, the force of Christianity's salvific message is less a "soteriological imperialism" and more a postmodern version of liberation theology, which will turn off more conservative readers. But in its major thesis, it is a signficant addition to the field. Technology is revealed as a moral issue with implications of disengagement and loss of meaning, and Borgmann has taken a strong step forward toward a solution.
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Title: Crossing the Postmodern Divide by Albert Borgmann, Albert Borgman ISBN: 0226066274 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: April, 1993 List Price(USD): $8.94 |
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Title: Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry by Albert Borgmann, Albert Borgman ISBN: 0226066290 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: March, 1987 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Holding on to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium by Albert Borgmann ISBN: 0226066231 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Making of the New Spirituality: The Eclipse of the Western Religious Tradition by James A. Herrick ISBN: 0830823980 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Transforming Our Days : Spirituality, Community and Liturgy in a Technological Culture by Richard R. Gaillardetz ISBN: 0824518446 Publisher: Crossroad/Herder & Herder Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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