Theology & Technology

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Taught by JST. Online course. Industrial technologies to modern digital technologies have created new challenges to theology. This class will explore the understanding of technology and its relation to faith, especially in the works of important twentieth and twenty-first century religious writers such as Karl Rahner, Hans Jonas, Johannes Baptist Metz and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. This class will not only look at the direct interaction between technology and theology, but also how certain areas of theology and certain eras of theological change are connected to technologies. This class is designed primarily for MA, MTS, ThM and advanced MDiv students. The aim of this course is to interrogate the relation of religious belief and human technology, with the expectation that students develop a deeper understanding of the interaction of the two and a better sense of how to approach new technologies in their future ministry.