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God and Gadgets (Hardcover)
Brad J. Kallenberg; Foreword by Nancey C. Murphy
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By Design (Hardcover)
Brad J. Kallenberg
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Wittgenstein, one of the most influential, and yet widely
misunderstood, philosophers of our age, confronted his readers with
aporias -- linguistic puzzles -- as a means of countering modern
philosophical confusions over the nature of language without
replicating the same confusions in his own writings. In Ethics as
Grammar, Brad Kallenberg uses the writings of theological ethicist
Stanley Hauerwas as a foil for demonstrating how Wittgenstein's
method can become concrete within the Christian tradition.
Kallenberg shows that the aesthetic, political, and grammatical
strands epitomizing Hauerwas's thought are the result of his
learning to do Christian ethics by thinking through Wittgenstein.
Kallenberg argues that Wittgenstein's pedagogical strategy
cultivates certain skills of judgment in his readers by making them
struggle to move past the aporias and acquire the fluency of
language's deeper grammar. Theologians, says Kallenberg, are well
suited to this task of "going on" because the gift of Christianity
supplies them with the requisite resources for reading
Wittgenstein. Kallenberg uses Hauerwas to make this case -- showing
that Wittgenstein's aporetic philosophy has engaged Hauerwas in a
life-long conversation that has cured him of many philosophical
confusions. Yet, because Hauerwas comes to the conversation as a
Christian believer, he is able to surmount Wittgenstein's aporias
with the assistance of theological convictions that he possesses
through grace.
Ethics as Grammar reveals that Wittgenstein's intention to
cultivate concrete skill in real people was akin to Aristotle's
emphasis on the close relationship of practical reason and ethics.
In this thought-provoking book,Kallenberg demonstrates that
Wittgenstein does more than simply offer a vantage point for
reassessing Aristotle, he paves the way for ethics to become a
distinctively Christian discipline, as exemplified by Stanley
Hauerwas.
Kallenberg employs design reasoning to illustrate how technological
artifacts can be assessed for their inherent moral properties, thus
bringing engineering ethics into conversation with Christian
theology in order to show how each can be for the other a catalyst
for the revolutionary task of living by design.
Sermons from Mind and Heart attempts to show the week-by-week
theological work that a pastor does. The combining of the
intellectual with the emotional is rooted in the categories of
logos and pathos from Aristotle's Rhetoric. Some of the sermons
have substantive theological reflections with multiple sources and
are thus heavily footnoted; other sermons have no footnotes. This
doesn't mean that any sermon lacks logos or pathos but that there
is an interplay, a back-and-forth, of a pastor struggling to
communicate the Gospel in a "this is that" way that honors both the
"then" of Scripture and the "now" of contemporary life. Rhetorical
scholarship and methodology are important in understanding the
content and the structure of the sermons. What matters most is the
sense that these sermons are an ongoing theological conversation
between the pastor and his congregation. Sermons, after all, are
meant to be heard, and they exist in the moment as authentic
rhetorical acts. All other versions of the sermon, including this
written form, are only echoes of the primal sermonic experience.
Description: Technologies are deeply embedded in the modern West.
What would our lives be like without asphalt, glass, gasoline,
electricity, window screens, or indoor plumbing? We naturally
praise technology when it is useful and bemoan it when it is not.
But there is much more to technology than the usefulness of this or
that artifact. Unfortunately, we tend not to consider the
inherently social and moral character of technology. As a result,
we are prone to overlook the effects of technology on our spiritual
lives. This book investigates the role technology plays in helping
and hampering our Christian practice and witness. Endorsements:
""Only Brad Kallenberg could have written this book. Drawing on an
engineering background, schooled by Wittgenstein's philosophical
work, and shaped by Christian theological convictions, he enables
us to see how technology can exercise power over us to our
detriment without asking us to abandon technology in service to
human life."" --Stanley Hauerwas, Duke Divinity School ""Kallenberg
does a masterful job of helping his reader see the blind spots of
modern, technological culture. His insights are provocative,
instructive, and often redemptive. You will find yourself asking a
whole new set of questions after reading this book--questions you
might wish you started asking long ago "" --Rick Langer Talbot
School of Theology/Biola University ""Brad Kallenberg brings a
strong philosophical and theological acumen to God and Gadgets. The
very idea that technology is a mixed blessing is a true act of
Christian witness in a culture immersed in all that is
'new-fangled' and thus considered almost in god-like terms.
Kallenberg addresses in trenchant and true ways the claims of God
and the Gospel on our gadget-infested culture. His prophetic voice
rings true from a Christian perspective, much as an earlier
philosopher, Ernesto Grassi, did in his insistence that technology
has its own set of hazards. This is a must read for preachers and
other scholars in our time."" --Rodney Wallace Kennedy Baptist
House of Studies, United Theological Seminary About the
Contributor(s): Brad J. Kallenberg is Associate Professor of
Theology at the University of Dayton He is the author of Live to
Tell: Evangelism for a Postmodern Age (2002) and Ethics as Grammar:
Changing the Postmodern Subject (2001).
Contributors to Virtues and Practices in the Christian Tradition
use Alasdair MacIntyre’s work as a methodological guide for doing
ethics in the Christian tradition. These essays are grouped in
three sections: descriptions of MacIntyre’s approach to ethics as
developed in After Virtue, reflections on the moral issues that
come to the fore when viewing the Christian tradition from a
MacIntyrean perspective, and selected essays on family,
homosexuality, abortion, pacifism, feminism, business ethics,
medical ethics, and economic justice.
Wittgenstein, one of the most influential, and yet widely
misunderstood, philosophers of our age, confronted his readers with
aporias-linguistic puzzles-as a means of countering modern
philosophical confusions over the nature of language without
replicating the same confusions in his own writings. In Ethics as
Grammar, Brad Kallenberg uses the writings of theological ethicist
Stanley Hauerwas as a foil for demonstrating how Wittgenstein's
method can become concrete within the Christian tradition.
Kallenberg shows that the aesthetic, political, and grammatical
strands epitomizing Hauerwas's thought are the result of his
learning to do Christian ethics by thinking through Wittgenstein.
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