Theology and Technology, Volume 1: Essays in Christian Analysis - Paperback

by Carl Mitcham (Editor), Jim Grote (Editor), Levi Checketts (Editor)

Originally published nearly forty years ago as a spiritual successor to Carl Mitcham and Robert Mackey's Philosophy and Technology, the essays collected in the two volumes of Theology and Technology span an array of theological attitudes and perspectives providing sufficient material for careful reflection and engagement. The first volume offers five general attitudes toward technology based off of H. Richard Niebuhr's five ideal types in Christ and Culture. The second volume includes biblical, historical, and modern theological engagements with the place of technology in the Christian life. This ecumenical collection ranges from authors who enthusiastically support technological development to those cynical of technique and engages the Christian tradition from the church fathers to recent theologians like Bernard Lonergan and Jacques Ellul. Taken together, these essays, some reproductions of earlier work and others original for this project, provide any student of theology a fitting entree into considering the place of technology in the realm of the sacred.

Author Biography

Carl Mitcham is international professor of philosophy of technology at Renmin University in Beijing, China, and professor emeritus of Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at Colorado School of Mines. He is the author of numerous books on philosophy and technology, including Steps toward a Philosophy of Engineering.

Jim Grote (d. 2013) was development officer for Boys' Haven and taught business ethics and philosophy in the Louisville, Kentucky, region. He is the author of Medieval Literacy and, with John McGeeney, Clever as Serpents: Business Ethics and Office Politics.

Levi Checketts is assistant professor of religion and philosophy at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is currently working on a book on AI epistemology and the option for the poor.