The making and unmaking of technological society : how Christianity can save modernity from itself /

Jardine, Murray, 1954-

The making and unmaking of technological society : how Christianity can save modernity from itself / - Grand Rapids, Mich. : Brazos Press, ©2004 - 304 Pages. ; 23 cm - The Christian Practice of Everyday Life .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-304)

The evolution of liberal capitalist democracy -- Classical liberalism and the early industrial economy -- Reform liberalism and the late industrial economy -- Neoclassical liberalism and the postindustrial economy -- The crisis of liberal capitalist democracy -- Society before Christianity : the ancient pagan world -- Morality before Christianity : classical Greek rationalism -- The cosmological and anthropological revolution of the biblical narrative -- The origins of the modern crisis in Christianity's political failure -- Contemporary responses to the modern crisis -- Constructing Christian community I : speech and the human place -- Constructing Christian community II : physical place, work, and death -- Conclusion : Christianity, technology, and human destiny

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Technology--Religious aspects--Christianity
Christian sociology
Christian ethics

BR115.T42 / J37 2004