Christian Ethics in a Technological Age

includes index and biblioraphy

Part I: The Attempt to Claim Christ`s Dominion 1. Martin Heidegger on Technology as a Form of Life 31 The Sociality of Perception: Beyond Idealism and Empiricism 33 Birth and Ascent of the Technological Form of Life 39 Can We "Tame" Technology? 48 Technology within the Law of Material Being 51 Conclusion: Beyond the Cosmos as "Object" 60 2. George Grant and the Technological Ideal 66 Grant, Heidegger, and the Metaphysics of Technology 66 Axioms of a Technological Age 69 The Consequences of Technological Axioms 85 Protest in a Technological Age: Sanity Is Not Statistical 94 Conclusion: Creation, Boundaries, and Hubris 99 3. Michel Foucault and the Habits of Technology 102 Grant and Foucault: Enucleation and Problematization 104 Revolutions in Punishment: From Drama to Docility 107 The Contemporary Relevance of Foucault`s Cultural Analysis 125 Technology as Meaningful Experience 129 Conclusion: Technology as and in Political Economy 145 Summarizing Part I with a Case: Tabulating Fertility 149 Technological Decision Making from the Inside 162 Part II: Seeking Christ`s Concrete Claim 4. Advent and the Renewal of the Senses 167 What Is Moral Theology? Christ at the Center 169 How Far Is Too Far? Moral Deliberation in a Technological Age 187 5. Technology for Good and Evil 191 Augustine`s Two Cities 193 Gift as Moral Heuristic 201 Technology as Pride: A Society of Curiosity 205 Theological Ontology and Moral Deliberation in the Work of Karl Earth 211 The Recovery of Situated Difference:The Promise of Technology 225 Conclusion: Sanctification as the Remaking of Rationality 234 6. Political Reconciliation in the Community of Worship 236 Bernd Wannenwetsch on Political Worship:Beyond Reactionism and Analogy 239 Reconciliation as the Church`s Life-Form 246 Clashing Forms of Life? Political Technique and Ecclesial Authority: Romans 12:1-8 Trust in the Word as Basic Political Skill 263 Mutual Representation and Reconciled Community 270 Conclusion: Political Ethics and Nonpolitical Technological Questions 288 7. Worship, Sabbath, and Work 289 Karl Earth on Sabbath: Genesis 2:1-3 29O Worship and Work between Creation and New Creation 295 Clashing Forms of Life? Work and Service 302 Conclusion: Work as a Site of Faith Seeking Understanding 318 8. Being Reconciled with Creation`s Material Form 320 Embracing Created Material Order as Gift 322 Bodiliness in the Creation Narrative: Genesis 1:24-31 335 Clashing Forms of Life? The Eating Complex 340 Clashing Forms of Life? The Sexual Complex 360 Theological Analysis of the Case Study: Receiving Fertility 364 Conclusion: Sociality and Materiality as a Site of Conflict 373 Conclusion: An Ethos of Dwelling in the House of the Lord 374 Demythologizing Technology Assessment 374 The Humane Revolt of the God-Man 379 Taking Hold of Life That Really Is Life 387