Digitalizing Pulpits & Pews
[Lecture Narrative]
The Peanuts cartoon characters, Lucy and Linus were looking out the window at a steady downpour of rain. Lucy says, "Boy," "look at all that rain. What if it flood the whole world?" "It will never do that," replies Linus. "In Genesis 9, God promised Noah that it would never happen again, and the sign of that promise is the rainbow." "You've taken a great load off my mind," says Lucy with a relieved smile. Linus replies, "Sound theology has a way of doing that." (Stevenson 4)
We began a determination to think through and develop a manageable Theology of Technology in the lecture narrative titled by that same name. The reason for such an endeavor is to take a load off your mind (by putting it on your mind) how we ought to view and even use technology as Christians.
In that discourse we established a few foundational things:
- First was that at its core, theology is merely: How a person views aspects of creation, in light of the Creator.
- Secondly we derived that technology is simply tools that provide ways and means of doing things faster and/or differently.
- Finally, we made it abundantly clear that God does not need technology to be God!
This monograph brings into the discussion some practical and pragmatic applications for our new theology of technology. Hence, the key developmental question to this whole thing is:
