Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
This is a slightly edited (to remove local references and to reduce the length) version of a speech I gave at the “Emerging Technologies & Media Mythologies” conference held at the Prince Conference Center at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan on October 5, 2009. I address three aspects of the relationship between faith and technology: (1) faith “for” technology, (2) faith “in” technology, and (3) faith “about” technology.
My quotes of Søren Kierkegaard’s work are from the wonderful collection of quotes titled Provocations. I highly recommend it, especially if you do not have the time to read his longer works.
My comments about St. Augustine’s work on faith and communication are primarily from his De Doctrina Christiana (On Christian Teaching/Doctrine). It is one of the most interesting books about the relationship between sacred texts and human communication. If you want a superbly annotated version of this work, see Richard Leo Enos and Roger Thompson, et. al. editors, The Rhetoric of St. Augustine of Hippo: De Doctrina Christiana & the Search for a Distinctly Christian Rhetoric (Baylor University Press, 2008). The book includes Sister Thérèse Sullivan’s stunning work on Augustine’s original text.
print text only — save paper
Comments on this entry are closed.