Love, Technology and Theology

Synopsis

This volume explores love in the context of today's technologies. It is difficult to separate love from romanticist ideals of authenticity, intimacy and depth of relationship. These ideals resonate with theological models of love that highlight the way God benevolently created the world and continues to love it. Technologies, which are designed in response to our desires, do not necessarily enjoy this romanticist resonance, and yet they are now remodelling the world. Are technologies then antithetical to love? In this volume, leading theologians have brought together themes of theology, technology and love for the first time, exploring different areas where notions of love and technology are problematized. In a world where algorithms and artificial intelligences interact with us and shape our lives in ever more intricate and even intimate ways, we might feel attachments to and through machines that suggest sentiments of love while also changing how we think about love. Does love always have to be reciprocal? How can we enact love and care for others with technologies? Whose desires do technologies serve – consumers, corporations, creatures? This volume offers a systematic review of the challenges of living in a technologically saturated world, by means of critical application of, as well as reflection on, theological discussions about love.

Copyright:

2020

Book Details

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9780567689962

Related ISBNs:

9780567689948

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing

Date of Addition:

06/24/20

Copyrighted By:

Scott A. Midson

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Science, Religion and Spirituality, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics

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Edited by:

Scott A. Midson