*2024 ECPA FAITH & CULTURE – TIE*How the Habitat of Internet Technology Undermines Christian WisdomWith advancements in internet technology, people can get instant answers to just about any of their questions, connect long distance with family and friends, and stay informed with events around the world in real time.In Digital...
*2024 ECPA FAITH & CULTURE – TIE*
How the Habitat of Internet Technology Undermines Christian Wisdom
With advancements in internet technology, people can get instant answers to just about any of their questions, connect long distance with family and friends, and stay informed with events around the world in real time.
In Digital Liturgies, tech-realist Samuel D. James examines the connection between patterns in technology and human desires. Everyone longs for a glimpse of heaven; James argues they are just looking for it in the wrong place - the internet.
This accessible book exposes 5 "digital liturgies" that prohibit people from contemplating big truths, accepting the uncomfortable, and acknowledging God as their Creator. It then calls readers to live faithfully before Christ, finding wisdom through Scripture and rest in God's perfect design.
- A Biblical View of the Internet and Technology: Readers explore the connection between human desire, the internet, and wisdom through a Christian lens - Great for College Students, Parents, and Pastors: This book encourages readers to live faithfully for Christ - Offers a Tech-Realist Perspective: Samuel D. James highlights the inherent dangers of digital technologies, offering wisdom for navigating our internet-saturated world
ENDORSEMENTS
"This accessible but penetrating book shows how our late-modern, secular culture provides liturgies: soul-shaping practices and narratives that train us to turn from God to the sovereign self, from God-created nature to self-created reality, from living for truth and love to living for power. If you can't see them, you can't resist them, and the author gives you resources to do both. Samuel James has written an essential book. He is one of the small but growing number of young thinkers to whom the church must listen if it is to learn how to be effective in evangelism and formation in a post-Christendom world." -- Tim Keller, Founding Pastor, Redeemer Presbyterian Church, New York City; Cofounder, Redeemer City to City
"Virtually everyone I know feels exhausted by or enslaved to some aspect of digital life. In this book, one of the sharpest Christian minds helps us discover what exactly we're looking for in our screens. Digital Liturgies points a path beyond the outrage, anger, shame, and boredom that we accidentally download into our souls." -- Russell Moore, Editor in Chief, Christianity Today
*2024 ECPA FAITH & CULTURE – TIE*How the Habitat of Internet Technology Undermines Christian WisdomWith advancements in internet technology, people can get instant answers to just about any of their questions, connect long distance with family and friends, and stay informed with events around the world in real time.In Digital...
*2024 ECPA FAITH & CULTURE – TIE*
How the Habitat of Internet Technology Undermines Christian Wisdom
With advancements in internet technology, people can get instant answers to just about any of their questions, connect long distance with family and friends, and stay informed with events around the world in real time.
In Digital Liturgies, tech-realist Samuel D. James examines the connection between patterns in technology and human desires. Everyone longs for a glimpse of heaven; James argues they are just looking for it in the wrong place - the internet.
This accessible book exposes 5 "digital liturgies" that prohibit people from contemplating big truths, accepting the uncomfortable, and acknowledging God as their Creator. It then calls readers to live faithfully before Christ, finding wisdom through Scripture and rest in God's perfect design.
- A Biblical View of the Internet and Technology: Readers explore the connection between human desire, the internet, and wisdom through a Christian lens - Great for College Students, Parents, and Pastors: This book encourages readers to live faithfully for Christ - Offers a Tech-Realist Perspective: Samuel D. James highlights the inherent dangers of digital technologies, offering wisdom for navigating our internet-saturated world
ENDORSEMENTS
"This accessible but penetrating book shows how our late-modern, secular culture provides liturgies: soul-shaping practices and narratives that train us to turn from God to the sovereign self, from God-created nature to self-created reality, from living for truth and love to living for power. If you can't see them, you can't resist them, and the author gives you resources to do both. Samuel James has written an essential book. He is one of the small but growing number of young thinkers to whom the church must listen if it is to learn how to be effective in evangelism and formation in a post-Christendom world." -- Tim Keller, Founding Pastor, Redeemer Presbyterian Church, New York City; Cofounder, Redeemer City to City
"Virtually everyone I know feels exhausted by or enslaved to some aspect of digital life. In this book, one of the sharpest Christian minds helps us discover what exactly we're looking for in our screens. Digital Liturgies points a path beyond the outrage, anger, shame, and boredom that we accidentally download into our souls." -- Russell Moore, Editor in Chief, Christianity Today
Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in An Online Age$7.00$5.25
The author’s burden is to help the reader to rediscover Christian wisdom in an online age in which digital technology is training us to think of ourselves and the world in disembodied ways and instilling in us the sense that our identity is something we create, rather than something we are given. To be clear, the point is not so much that the internet’s content preaches “expressive individualism” to us (though that is certainly true) as that the internet itself, as a medium, inherently serves the placing of the self at the centre of all things. Far from being a neutral tool, the internet has become a teacher of our souls. Outlining five “digital liturgies,” James explores the ways in which the internet, as a spiritual and intellectual habitat, profoundly shapes our habits of thinking, feeling, and believing. This is a much-needed book for everyone who spends time online without having thought critically about how that might be forming the mind and soul.
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2 years ago
Powerful and unsightful read
This is potentially my favourite book I've read all year. It's a MUST for every Christian who goes online, as we inevitably fall into material which is at odds with our faith. It provides a poignant look into online culture, without being ""anti technology"", pushing us to examine our hearts and minds about how we approach the internet, and what it means to be made in Gods image.
Brilliantly written, witty and concise! Highly recommended!
