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Religion Social Issues

Christ and Modernity

Christian Self-Understanding in a Technological Age

by (author) David J. Hawkin

Publisher
CCSR, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2010
Category
Social Issues, Religion & Science, Social Aspects
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781554586950
    Publish Date
    Oct 2010
    List Price
    $32.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780889201934
    Publish Date
    Jan 1986
    List Price
    $34.99

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In this re–examination of the roots of the relationship between religion and science, David Hawkin focuses on the concept of autonomy as he explores the question: Is there continuity and compatibility between the autonomy that underlies Christian faith and the role of individual freedom in the technological age?

What makes this work particularly valuable is Professor Hawkin’s review of the theological, philosophical, political, psychological, and sociological works that have formed our ideas of the nature of both Christianity and modernity — Reimarus, Strauss, Schweitzer, and Bultmann on the quest for the historical Jesus; Bauer and Turner on Christian faith and practice; Machiavelli, Nietzsche, Darwin, Freud, and Marx on our historicity; Gogarten, Cox, and Bonhoeffer who affirm our autonomy in the technological process; Ellul and George who deny it.

About the author

David Hawkin is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland.

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