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Power Failure: Christianity in the Culture of Technology Paperback - 2012

by Albert Borgmann


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We live in a culture shaped and fueled by technology. Usually we equate access to technology with opportunity and the chance to pursue "the good life." Power Failure raises some crucial, if disconcerting, questions about technology: If technology liberates us, what kind of liberation does it promise? Are we prospering, and by what definition?
Albert Borgmann looks at the relationship between Christianity and technology by examining some of the "invisible" dangers of a technology-driven lifestyle. Specifically, he points out how utility and consumption have replaced connection to physical things and meaningful practices in everyday life. Power Failure calls us to redeem and restrain technology through simple Christian practices, including citizen-based decision making, shared meals, and daily Scripture reading.

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  • Title Power Failure: Christianity in the Culture of Technology
  • Author Albert Borgmann
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Baker Academic & Brazos Press, Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.A
  • Date 2012-04-05
  • ISBN 9781587430589 / 1587430584
  • Weight 0.49 lbs (0.22 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.88 x 6.64 x 0.43 in (22.56 x 16.87 x 1.09 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Theometrics: Evangelical
    • Theometrics: Mainline
  • Library of Congress subjects Religion and science, Technology - Religious aspects - Christianity
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002152382
  • Dewey Decimal Code 261.56

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Citations

  • Choice, 06/01/2007, Page 1681
  • Christianity Today, 07/01/2003, Page 67

About the author

Albert Borgmann is professor of philosophy at the University of Montana. His previous publications include Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life, Crossing the Postmodern Divide, and Holding on to Reality.
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