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At that place was an interesting history of technological advances in here every bit well every bit a word almost internet narcissism/privacy issues, a conflicting want to be seen and not to exist seen.
I enjoyed the discussion of how technology has
I listened to this audio book from Christian Audio. At that place was an chemical element of irony when the author was talking about the negative effect that digital techonology has on our attention bridge, while I was listening to the volume at double speed to get through it more quickly.There was an interesting history of technological advances in hither every bit well as a give-and-take about internet narcissism/privacy bug, a conflicting desire to be seen and not to be seen.
I enjoyed the word of how applied science has an ecological effect on order rather than an additive effect. In other words, a new engineering will not but be added to a gild that will then proceed as is, but information technology will fundamentally change the manner society operates.
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My review of "The Side by side Story" will exist different, because I listened to information technology in the form of an audiobook. It was one of Christian Audio'due south freebies at one point. I wasn't sure if I should try to review it, or how to review it. With a paper
I reviewed Tim Challies' book "The Subject area of Spiritual Discernment" most a year ago. I used to subscribe to his weblog, but in an exercise similar to one he recommends in "The Next Story", I unsubscribed because of a lack of personal value for the fourth dimension reading.My review of "The Next Story" will be different, because I listened to information technology in the grade of an audiobook. It was one of Christian Audio'due south freebies at 1 indicate. I wasn't sure if I should effort to review it, or how to review information technology. With a newspaper or electronic book, y'all tin make notes and go back and forth over the text. With an audiobook, I oft listen while driving or walking and making notes is difficult. So this review volition be fairly brief. I'm not going back through 12+ hours of audio.
"The Side by side Story" is Tim Challies' 2d book. I tin can tell his writing and thinking accept matured since "The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment". This book had less "Tin I get an amen!" content and a piddling bit more meat. Information technology notwithstanding had some fuzzy thinking.
"The Next Story" is about technology. It talks some near the history of technology, the present land of technology, the theology nosotros should consider our technology with, and the future or "side by side story" of technology.
Overall, I liked and agreed with what I heard, and I retrieve information technology'south a pretty good volume and I recommend it. Here are a few points I disagreed or struggled with:
Beeps- Tim spends a lot of time on how our gadgets demand our attending. In the years I followed his weblog, this came up a lot. But Tim seems to accept it as less of a personal discipline and more of the engineering science's error. He mentioned the but salvation he had at one betoken was to spend a week in a cabin in the woods in Virginia to go along his technology from distracting him from his family.
Tim? You know these things have off switches, right? iOS 6 has a "Do Not Disturb" mode. Y'all can as well customize the notifications you receive. I got tired of my iPhone chiming every time an email came in, so I set it to not chime when I got a new electronic mail. Much better.
You lot tin also TELL people "Look, I'thousand busy right now. I won't be responding to y'all until I hitting this milestone."
Those strategies have worked pretty well for me.
I left a comment about off switches and silent modes and just plain ignoring the damn things on one of Tim Challies' posts a couple years ago, and several commenters said I must be a stronger human being than they are. Sure, it's the technology'due south fault.
The medium is the message- This is i I heard frequently when I read Tim Challies' weblog. Information technology came upwardly quite a bit in this book. I can't quite go my mind effectually it though. It seems to have something to do with the medium yous choose to ship your message through besides somehow influence how the message is received. I hope I'm not rendering that inaccurately.
Certainly, for each message yous wish to convey, at that place is a medium that works best. There are some media that are not suitable. The telegraph tin be quite a useful tool, but you wouldn't use information technology to deliver a sermon or a Presidential address. It would also be a horrific alternative to YouTube. If y'all're choosing the wrong media through which to ship a message, I don't see this being the fault of "technology". It's your own lack of maturity in understanding the available tools and proper uses for those tools. I have learned over the years that although I would much rather use electronic mail and chat, there are some messages that I Have to pick upward the telephone, or get in person to evangelize. That'south a result of wisdom and experience, and understanding the bachelor tools and their proper uses.
So I don't recall the medium is the message. Perhaps the misuse of the medium tin can become the message. But that's PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair) not a factor of engineering science.
Overall, I think this is a skilful book, and I recommend information technology for Christians to consider the intersection of theology and engineering as we move forrad into whatever comes next.
And one point I realized was good is that separating the Bible from your device (at to the lowest degree some of the time) can be skillful. I tin see how at times, having a unmarried part device (newspaper Bible) can event in much better written report and devotion. there is something almost a Bible sitting on the table that helps you to focus on what y'all're doing when you're doing information technology. I'm yet going to be using my iPhone and it's massive theological library in church though.
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Tim Challies explores many common topics surrounding our increasing consumption and reliance on engineering science such every bit the danger of distraction, pri
The Next Story isn't and so much a volume discussing the potential dangers of technology every bit it is a biblical guidebook to how we should arroyo our use of it responsibly. It doesn't list all the expected dangers of our mobile (and immobile) devices and suggest a technology fast. Instead, it acts as a guidebook for how we are to use technology as Christians.Tim Challies explores many mutual topics surrounding our increasing consumption and reliance on technology such every bit the danger of distraction, privacy bug while existence online, and the sheer overload of data. Yet, he also delves into more than unexpected problems concerning technology such every bit the affect it has on our abiding need for productivity, the consequences of having a wide and shallow access to knowledge, and the fact that more advice doesn't ever equal better communication. With a well-researched history of technology and the current disconnect between its intended uses and how we actually use them, Challies brings up some excellent points and offers practical solutions.
I such noteworthy indicate was that "...while the message of a particular programme can be mortiferous serious, the medium is all nigh entertainment." He brings upward the fact that virtually agendas and messages online are fabricated through series of images, not words. Removal of the written word as well removes a large amount of critical thinking in evaluating a message, especially when the presentation of that bulletin is made through means of entertainment.
He besides brings upwardly the unfortunate upshot of the diminishing memorization of Scripture if we already have it on our telephone and in our pocket. A result of a bigger issue, the loss of the need for memory is a directly event of ultimate accessibility to countless information. Technology has the potential to make its users more shallow, more temporary, and more multitasking than before. Challies boils down those consequences into specific weaknesses in those areas for Christians and how we should human activity instead.
The Next Story brings to light both predictable consequences to engineering likewise as some very unanticipated consequences. The fact that mediated communication leads us to believe we're being more productive than we are equally well equally the detrimental method of multitasking bring attention to the passivity with which many approach technology. Challies also states that technology leaves permanent data trails, and while nosotros may not be using information technology to surf the spider web for pornography, what we search for and view is directly related to the fruit we produce as Christians. He never suggests throwing the phones and laptops away. Instead you walk away with a newfound awareness and intentionality in handling them moving frontwards.
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Challies writes in the conclusion the questions that he asked himself earlier he wrote this book.
1) Is technology taking over my li
Challies writes in the decision the questions that he asked himself before he wrote this book.
1) Is technology taking over my life?
2) If so, is it remaking me in it's image?
three) Am I becoming a tool of my tool?
While I think that some of the aspects of his book have not aged well during a globally locked downwardly pandemic (there is a chapter where he continually defends that face to face communication is always superior - which is absolutely true but not helpful when everyone is unable to do then), the main points and questions raised are very valuable.
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In The Side by side Story: Life and Faith after the Digital Explosion, Challies attempts to brand a more comprehensive statement about the human relationship betwixt technology and the Chr
Canadian pastor, author, and blogger Tim Challies has long been recognized as an insightful vocalization on cultural and technological issues facing the Church. His website (Challies.com) often features production reviews of new devices and he frequently wrestles with the theological implications of new technologies in his web log posts.In The Next Story: Life and Faith afterward the Digital Explosion, Challies attempts to make a more comprehensive statement about the relationship between engineering and the Christian life, and the event is excellent. Through this short book, he takes readers on a journey from the creation mandate to the iPhone, developing a biblical agreement of applied science and examining the many challenges that rapid innovation brings to Christians.
In the kickoff role of the volume, Challies makes a compelling case for the good of engineering science, demonstrating that man ingenuity in creating engineering science reflects the graphic symbol of God as Creator and is part and parcel of how He designed united states of america to "fill the world and subdue information technology" (Gen. one:28). He shows readers how, from the plow to the printing printing to the airplane, technology has had tremendous positive effects on man'due south quality of life and His power to serve the Lord.
Challies recognizes, likewise that all applied science carries certain risks, many of which nosotros may not see until nosotros take fully adopted a new device. He points out that though we try to brand engineering science in our epitome, it often returns the favor, remaking our lives in ways we never could have imagined. He draws from slap-up secular theorists like Neil Postman and Align McLuhan to show that the devices and systems nosotros create, peculiarly for communication, implicitly change the meaning of the letters we use them to send.
The second office of The Next Story addresses six areas in which technological advances have brought meaning changes (both for skilful and bad) and tries to aid Christians brand informed decisions about how they collaborate with these new realities.
In particular, Challies discusses the multiplying and cheapening of communication through the internet and mobile devices; the event of media on our relationships and how mediated distance hinders dear and fosters negative behaviors; the distraction that comes from sensory overload and the need to recapture focus in lodge to pray and worship well; the cult of information for information'south sake and the need to sort and procedure what nosotros know to develop true wisdom; the redefining of truth past user-generated content and the need for grounding in God'southward truth; and the two-edged sword of heightened visibility of our lives through social media and increased anonymity in hiding behind a screen and the demand for a consistent witness.
In all, Challies provides a very thorough yet very accessible manual for Christians to make sense of their digital world through a biblical lens. He does not critique the digital revolution as a Luddite, merely rather urges Christians to think critically nigh the means they interact with the technologies that take come up to define today'south world and, as e'er, to allow God's standards to be our standards as we evaluate our devices and media choices. In the end, he reminds u.s.a. that God is in control, and that the new world we find ourselves in today is His earth as much as always.
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Lesser of 53 - kind of a stupid point
61-62 - the etymological fallacy applied to applied science
74 - shocking statistics about Facebook usage
90 - shocking statistics about time in front of a screen.
105 - simchurch
160ff - criticism of Wikipedia equally a relativist view of truth
169 - "while we've never been able to accept everything presented every bit fact, we've been able to trust the arrangement through which we have come to know facts." Very naive epistemology.
Thoughts after I finished the book:
For all the Jeremiad talk, what are any of the states supposed to do differently? Everyone who despairs of new technologies destroying usa tin't help only continue to use them. The extremists and the early adopters receive all of the criticisms, but when the same technologies eventually become mainstream nosotros decry them for changing us even as nosotros apply them.
And so what is the practiced of all the despairing? Regardless of what we say, the prevailing technologies will become part our lifestyles eventually. What exactly are nosotros seeking to accomplish with our pronouncements? What exactly is information technology that the conscientious reader ought to do?
Does engineering affect us and change gild? Of course. Simply only in the limited mode that a place or a culture or a motion can - on the surface. In brusk, it can force cultural changes just not human nature. Only it never helps a culture to think biblically if their conscious focus is on how different they are from the rest of the world.
Maybe the all-time answer is not in emphasizing how new these challenges are simply how old. Maybe people need to exist reminded that man beings have always struggled with covetousness, sensuality, the council of the ungodly, intellectual autonomy, and wasting time. Maybe that xix year onetime that thinks he has to have an iPhone 4S won't respond to Marshall McLuhan telling him the medium is the message and he'due south going to lose his intelligence if he buys this. Perchance he simply needs to be told that information technology can't make him happy considering there is nothing new nether the lord's day, and he actually isn't whatever more hip for wanting it—human beings have always craved things they don't accept. Maybe that 27 twelvemonth sometime female parent of 2 doesn't need to be told that Facebook is changing our society to make our friendships more shallow. Peradventure she should hear that outside friendships are okay, merely her commencement priority is her husband and children; the approval of the remainder of humanity is only secondary. It'south the same old battles; the same sometime sin; the same quondam world, flesh, and devil that fallen humanity has always succumbed to.
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God made united states creative beings in his prototype and assigned to us a job that would crave us to plumb the depths of that creativity. He knew that to fulfill our created purpose we would demand to be innovative, developing new tools and means of utilizing the resources and abilities that he had given to u.s.a.. In other words, obedience to God requires that nosotros create engineering science. This tells us tha
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God made us creative beings in his image and assigned to the states a task that would require us to plumb the depths of that creativity. He knew that to fulfill our created purpose nosotros would need to be innovative, developing new tools and means of utilizing the resources and abilities that he had given to us. In other words, obedience to God requires that we create technology. This tells us that there is some inherent good in the technology we create. Whenever nosotros express our God-given creativity past coming up with something that will assistance us be more fruitful, that will multiply and promote human flourishing in a manner that honors God, we human action out of the imago Dei, the "prototype of God" in which nosotros were created.
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Neil Postman, the late cultural critic and media theorist, pointed out that over time certain technologies come to be considered mythic, not in the sense of existence fictional or legendary, simply in the sense that they seem to have e'er existed in their electric current form. They have become part of the natural order of life. They become causeless, and we forget that they take not e'er been a part of our lives.
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technological modify is non additive but ecological.half-dozen In other words, it affects more than our lives as individuals. It introduces far more complex changes than anything we could have always foreseen. A technology changes the entire environs information technology operates in. It changes the way we perceive the globe. Information technology changes the way nosotros sympathize ourselves.
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Meanwhile, the digital explosion has even changed the fashion the adult encephalon functions. It has placed many of us into what has been described as a state of continuous fractional attending, a land in which nosotros devote partial attention to many tasks simultaneously, nigh of them having to do with communication. While we sit down at our desks working on a report, we are also monitoring our mobile phones and our instant messaging accounts, giving partial attention to a host of unlike media. As we do so, we go on our brains in a constant country of heightened stress, damaging our ability to devote ourselves to extended periods of thoughtful reflection and contemplation.12
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I am now primarily an individual, not part of a traditional group. And withal I still demand to take an identity, even if information technology is not as function of a community or group based on the erstwhile epitome of geography. And here the Internet has wired us together in surprising new ways and has allowed us all to identify past our personal interests, whatever they happen to be. Shared interests rather than shared space now define community. Exercise you come across the shift here? Our perception of customs is becoming disembodied, a product of mediated advice based on shared interest rather than a product of contiguous advice based on shared space.
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In A Journey Worth Taking, Charles Drew provides an important warning about the involuntary nature of the community God calls us to as his people. He cautions us confronting elevating our individual tastes in the churches nosotros attend. "Church" is not an event. It is people — people whom God calls united states of america to love. What is more, it is in a very important sense an involuntary community of people: we don't cull our brothers and sisters — God does. And sometimes (oftentimes) those people are not terribly compatible with us — not the people we would choose to hang out with. Just it is this very incompatibility that is so important, for at to the lowest degree two reasons. First, learning to honey the people I don't similar is by far the best fashion to acquire how to love (it'due south like shooting fish in a barrel to beloved people I happen to similar). Second, the church is supposed to exist a sociological phenomenon — a sit-in that Jesus has died and risen to create a new humanity composed of all sorts of people.17
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If nosotros are a distracted people, a distracted society, it stands to reason that we would also be a distracted church, a church with a diminished ability to think deeply, to cultivate concentration, to emphasize tedious, deliberate, thoughtful meditation.
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Here is one of the great dangers we confront as Christians: With the e'er-present distractions in our lives, we are rapidly becoming a people of shallow thoughts, and shallow thoughts will lead to shallow living. At that place is a simple and inevitable progression at work hither: All of this distraction is reshaping us in two unsafe means. First, we are tempted to abdicate quality for quantity, believing the lie that virtue comes through speed, productivity, and efficiency. We recollect that more must be amend, and and so we drive ourselves to exercise more, attain more, exist more. And 2d, as this happens, we lose our ability to appoint in deeper means of thinking — full-bodied, focused idea that requires fourth dimension and cannot be rushed. Instead of focusing our efforts in a few directions, nosotros give scant attending to many things, skimming instead of studying. We alive rushed lives and forget how to move slowly, carefully, and thoughtfully through life. The challenge facing u.s.a. is clear. We demand to relearn how to think, and we demand to discipline ourselves to think deeply, conquering the distractions in our lives so that we tin live deeply. We must rediscover how to be truly thoughtful Christians, as we seek to live with virtue in the aftermath of the digital explosion.
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But what if this emphasis on speed and capacity has begun to shape us? What if our consumption and use of these devices has trained us to assume that greater speed and greater capacity are universal virtues? What if we have transferred the virtues of digital devices to our own lives?
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nosotros press on, trying to match the speed of our new devices, arresting into our consciousness the thought that speed itself is a virtue, that fast is ever good. Nosotros recreate ourselves in the image of our devices, through the ideologies they contain within them.
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The speed of digital life, the understanding that e-mails grow stale if they are not responded to immediately, the knowledge that a text bulletin that is a few hours quondam is already ancient, increases the step of our lives. Eventually we begin trying to make everything faster. We effort to speed up our families, our worship, our eating. We begin to race through life, unwilling or peradventure unable to slow down, to suspension, and to reflect.
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Speed is just ane of the means we measure ourselves. We besides measure out ourselves past our chapters, by our ability to produce. Just equally our devices continually evolve toward greater capacity, and so as well we need more than and more than of ourselves. Nosotros want to continue upwardly with our devices; we want to be productive, to utilise each moment of each day to achieve something tangible. The accent on productivity arose during the period of industrialization, when manufactory owners realized that they could generate a more assisting production if they ruthlessly controlled every attribute of its production. So they hired experts who watched and measured every aspect of production until every moment of every worker's day was regulated and deemed for. Every person was required to be productive in every moment.
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As the footstep grew, Jesus would constantly boring it downwards in order to keep his focus on what was most important. Where we might keep count of the number of people Jesus healed and those who professed him equally Lord — and mensurate Jesus' productivity in this style — he kept himself accountable to a higher measure. Much of his fourth dimension was non productive in any manner we could easily measure. And all the same his fourth dimension was sacred, every moment dedicated to the Begetter.
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Meanwhile, if we surround ourselves by too many stimuli, nosotros strength our brains into a state of continuous fractional attending, a state in which we keep tabs on everything without giving focused attention to anything. When in this state of continuous partial attention, "people may place their brains in a heightened state of stress. They no longer have time to reflect, contemplate, or brand thoughtful decisions. Instead, they exist in a sense of constant crunch — on alert for a new contact or bit of exciting news or data at whatever moment.
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This is as true in worship equally it is in the workplace. Efficiency is a dangerous mind-gear up to bring to our faith. Nosotros do not want to be efficient worshipers, driven by a desire to get more of God in a shorter amount of time. We do not want to be hurried worshipers who value speed over quality. And yet there are multitudes of Ane Infinitesimal Bibles and Ii Minute Devotionals available for those of the states who only tin can't spare the time, for those who demand a spiritual fix for the sake of conscience merely aren't willing to sacrifice more than time.
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my business organization is that as we dedicate ourselves to the pursuit of more than information from more sources, we will be so overloaded past data that nosotros will no longer have the time — mayhap even the ability — to ponder that information, to consider it, to have the time to study it and clarify information technology and meditate on information technology.
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I of the groovy benefits of the data age, ironically, is that information technology allows us to know less because nosotros can look up anything at a click of the mouse.fifteen We tin access information that would otherwise reside in only a few minds. We are grateful for this when we encounter poison ivy and want to observe a manner of dealing with the crawling. Only it is a benefit that can take diminishing returns.
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Whether we want to be or not nosotros are all plugged into technology. Some o
Do you ain your technology or does your applied science own you? This is a deeply probing and provocative question. "Am I giving up command of my life? Is it possible that these technologies are changing me? Am I becoming a tool of the very tools that are supposed to serve me (p. eleven)?" Answering these questions put Tim Challies on a quest which resulted in his recent book The Adjacent Story: Life and Faith After the Digital Explosion.Whether nosotros desire to be or not we are all plugged into applied science. Some of us more others by choice or by profession. Some of us are plugged in every bit little as possible and resist the applied science pull every step of the way. Notwithstanding others are plugged in more than they realize and are unwilling to admit it. Whoever you lot are and how always much or footling yous are engaged in technology today, you are affected by it and yous demand to read The Next Story.
Since technology is hither to stay and we all take part in using information technology (even the resisters) Challies offers a clarification of engagement called disciplined discernment. This disciplined discernment is when
A Christian looks advisedly at the new realities, weighs and evaluates them, and educates himself, thinking deeply about the potential consequences and effects of suing this kind of engineering science……he relies on the Holy Spirit, who speaks his wisdom through the Bible, to acquire how he can live with virtue in this new digital globe (p. 17).
Part one of the book deals with a theology of engineering, the theory of technology and our experience(south) with technology. Challies takes the above arroyo to engineering science, versus total rejection of it, because he sees applied science as the natural result of mankind fulfilling the cultural mandate in Genesis. God is artistic and he created usa to be creative. Technology is thus the result of our God given creative ability (p. 22-23).
With the theory of technology, Challies offers several angles to help us meliorate understand how our use of engineering can effect the states. It involves risk and opportunity, each medium carries with it a message when used, it shifts the residual of power and has biological effects. Borrowing from Marshall McLuhan, Challies gives united states of america four questions to inquire ourselves before nosotros involve ourselves in the newest technology in order to "identify the deep-rooted nature – and possible affect – of a new applied science (p. 41):
What human trait, sense, or experience is enhanced by this new technology?
What existing applied science is made obsolete by this new i?
What quondam, abandoned engineering does this engineering bring back to mind?
What unintended opposite effects might this technology take?
Asking and thoughtfully answering these questions volition assistance us to go better disciplined discerners when it comes to our utilise of technology.
The final aspect of technology Challies considers is our experience with it over time. He provides a fascinating and sweeping digital history starting with Samuel Morse in 1844 with the invention of the telegraph and running right up to today with the invention of the computer and prison cell phone.
Before moving to part 2 Challies asks us to consider four more questions we need to ask of our technology before nosotros use or don't use them (p. 61-64).
Why were you created? – For business or entertainment?
What is the problem to which yous are a solution, and whose problem is it? – Is the 'problem' this technology addressing even real and if so is it my problem?
What new problems will it bring? – Will the negative furnishings of using this technology outweigh the good?
What are yous doing to my centre? – Is this engineering going to become an idol of my middle or is information technology going to be an avenue through which I will fall deeper into an already existing idol?
Function 2 addresses a number of of import aspects of applied science, how they shape our lives through our experience with them and how we need to respond with disciplined discernment. Throughout role 2 Challies tries to weave the aspects of theology, theory and experience equally he discusses everything from technology equally communication, arbitration/identity, distraction, information, truth/potency and visibility/privacy. At the end of each chapter Challies recaps the theological, theoretical and experiential issues he discussed, offers some suggestions on how to think about our engineering science in light of them then provides some probing questions to answer to help us recollect about and evaluate our use of technology.
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While I honey this volume I did have some objections or concerns with some of Challies theological points. Information technology seems there is a disconnect between Challies theology of engineering science in role ane and how he applies it subsequently in the book. Due to infinite I will only accost one of them.
In the chapter on mediation Challies defines a medium as "something that stands between (p. 91)" Fair enough. Applied to engineering "a digital medium is a device or tool or technology that delivers some kind of data or information. It stands between the 1 who creates sounds or images and the ane who receives them (p. 91)." Were withal ok up to this signal. Where I recollect Challies becomes inconsistent or at to the lowest degree tries to describe a false comparison is when he looks at God'due south arbitration with usa through Christ because of our sin and our use of mediation with others through our technology. Challies writes,
The best relationships we can have are non those that rely on mediation, only rather the ones that allow for unmediated contact and advice. This becomes apparent every bit we examine God's intention for us equally people made in his prototype. What type of relational interaction were we fabricated for, and hwy is a mediator now necessary for usa to experience relational intimacy? The Bible does, in fact, teach us that mediation is necessary for u.s.a. to know God fully and dearest one another, but as nosotros will see, this mediated communication is a concession from God and a consequence of man's sin. Face up-to-face contact between human beings is inherently richer and amend than any mediated contact (p. 92).
Outset, information technology is a false comparison to say that considering God used mediation through Christ to bring u.s. to himself because of sin, this makes all mediatorial things inferior to unmediated contact.
Second, following that, this is inconsistent with Challies theology of technology as the natural result of mans creative ability equally endowed to him by God at creation. If technology is a consequence of mankind fulfilling the creation mandate, and information technology is past definition mediatorial, so how can information technology be that it is inherently inferior? Would engineering science not accept a mediatorial attribute if sin had never entered the picture? Would nosotros non be using emails or phones to speak to people from around the globe? Later on all God commanded Adam and Eve to form and fill the earth. It seems that mediated communication would exist necessary even in a world without sin. Farther, when heaven and world are brought together and sin is removed how will engineering be changed? Will God remove all mediated applied science? I recall this is an result and these are some questions that nosotros need to think through before adopting this view of mediation and engineering.
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Despite the faults I find in the book, there are well more skilful contributions this book brings to the tabular array when it comes to the intersection between faith and technology.
First, while I am non a techie junkie, this is the merely book of its kind that attempts to bring theology to deport on technology.
Second, Challies asks the penetrating questions and actually identifies with his readers and boyfriend technology users with them. He asks the good hard questions of united states of america because he has first asked them of himself.
Third, Challies does not make us experience muddied for using engineering even though it is used for some pretty sinful stuff. He brings a balance and even-handed approach to it.
I recall this is a book that is long overdo only probably could not have been written even iii years ago. This is a book that only a hand total of people could have written and Challies is certainly qualified. I think every Christian needs to read this volume. I do wonder how well many people volition be able to make the necessary adjustments in their lives when it comes to their use of technology. I am by no means heavily entrenched in technology (maybe I am and only don't see information technology yet) but I establish myself walking away with many things I need to think about and have already begun the process of evaluating my own utilize of applied science – changes will be made.
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1. The history of technology and the changes that information technology has forced on our civilization and our faith;
2. The possibility of engineering becoming an idol;
3. How technology affects us from a biological perspective;
4. The divergence between information, knowledge and wisdom;
v. The fact that current technology pr
1. The history of technology and the changes that it has forced on our civilization and our faith;
2. The possibility of engineering becoming an idol;
three. How engineering affects us from a biological perspective;
4. The difference between data, knowledge and wisdom;
five. The fact that current technology preserves EVERYTHING; and
6. How your grapheme is adult or marred by apply of technology.
There is also a discussion on truth and authority and how technology has changed our models for how we view or know truth. There is also a word on privacy vs. visibility and what we are proverb to others, possibly without realizing it.
This book really highlights the demand for awareness of how we employ technology and the messages that nosotros send to others with our decisions on what we exercise and say online.
At that place are LOTS of questions hither. Many of these are simply questions nosotros need to ask ourselves. In that location are non necessarily correct or wrong answers. Raising the questions crusade us to focus on things and to determine whether we are using technology or allowing it to apply us. Underlying all of this is the outcome of how our faith guides us in using engineering and is affected by that use. Using technology for God's glory is what our focus *should* be.
I am going to need to think through this and probably need to re-read this, in the future.
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The author's bespeak is to brand sure nosotros are actively thinking about tech in our lives and actively making sure we
This was an excellent book for helping Christians think through the impact of technology on our lives. It does not try to demonize applied science, just it does accept a hard wait at how technology changes the states and fifty-fifty masters usa, when we should be masters of information technology. It also takes a good look at how it changes human being interaction, intuitions of value, relationships, views of truth and say-so, etc.The author'southward point is to brand sure we are actively thinking most tech in our lives and actively making sure we exercise non let it dehumanize us. That is needed considering nosotros can so easily accept technology passively and allow information technology to change united states of america in ways that are not healthy.
I would recommend actually reading the Conclusion/Epilogue kickoff, because it does a actually expert job of summing up the book and preparing you for what you are about to read. It also helps gear up the stage for how we should remember about each affiliate and effort to piece of work out applications for our lives.
I definitely would recommend this book and I volition be using it as a discussion book sometime in the time to come.
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He has application and reflection questions and is also honest virtually some of his own struggles with technology.
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While the hot devices and apps take changed somewhat during the last five years, Challies' reflections on Advice (the challenges and the responsibilities of improved ways of broadcast community), Mediation (what changes when we're not face-to-face with those we're communicating with?), Distraction (the difficulty of thinking deeply in the digital historic period), Informatio
Five years afterwards information technology's publication, this book remains a helpful, insightful resource for thinking Christianly about technology.While the hot devices and apps accept inverse somewhat during the last five years, Challies' reflections on Advice (the challenges and the responsibilities of improved means of circulate community), Mediation (what changes when we're not face-to-confront with those we're communicating with?), Distraction (the difficulty of thinking securely in the digital age), Data (pursuing wisdom in an age that thinks that often thinks that information is the pinnacle, Truth (how the electric current understandings of truth and say-so dissimilarity with a biblical agreement of the same), and Visibility (the implications of leaving a constant information trail) are spot-on, convicting, and constructive.
(total disclosure: the agency I work for represents this writer and book)
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Definitely worth a read.
This is definitely a idea provoking book. The start of it was tedious and a bit hard to grasp his framework simply the awarding of his points leads one to seriously think through the footprint he leaves in this digital world. Engineering isn't evil but we have to call back about the bear on it has on us and how our religion works in this digital earth.Definitely worth a read.
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