Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age (Samuel D. James)

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How the Habitat of Internet Technology Undermines Christian Wisdom

With advancements in internet technology, people can get instant answers to just about any of their questions, connect long distance with family and friends, and stay informed with events around the world in real time.

In Digital Liturgies, tech-realist Samuel D. James examines the connection between patterns in technology and human desires. Everyone longs for a glimpse of heaven; James argues they are just looking for it in the wrong place—the internet.

This accessible book exposes 5 “digital liturgies” that prohibit people from contemplating big truths, accepting the uncomfortable, and acknowledging God as their Creator. It then calls readers to live faithfully before Christ, finding wisdom through Scripture and rest in God’s perfect design.

A Biblical View of the Internet and Technology: Readers explore the connection between human desire, the internet, and wisdom through a Christian lens

Great for College Students, Parents, and Pastors: This book encourages readers to live faithfully for Christ

Offers a Tech-Realist Perspective: Samuel D. James highlights the inherent dangers of digital technologies, offering wisdom for navigating our internet-saturated world

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Endorsements

“This accessible but penetrating book shows how our late-modern, secular culture provides liturgies: soul-shaping practices and narratives that train us to turn from God to the sovereign self, from God-created nature to self-created reality, from living for truth and love to living for power. If you can’t see them, you can’t resist them, and the author gives you resources to do both. Samuel James has written an essential book. He is one of the small but growing number of young thinkers to whom the church must listen if it is to learn how to be effective in evangelism and formation in a post-Christendom world.”

Tim Keller

Table of Contents

Introduction: What the Web Means for Our Spiritual Lives

Part 1: Truth and Technology

Chapter 1: Embodied Wisdom in a Faceless Age

Chapter 2: How Technology Shapes Us

Chapter 3: Drowning in the Shallows

Part 2: Engaging the Digital Liturgies

Chapter 4: “My Story, My Truth”: Digital Liturgy #1: Authenticity

Chapter 5: The Abolition of Thought: Digital Liturgy #2: Outrage

Chapter 6: Shame on You: Digital Liturgy #3: Shame

Chapter 7: Naked in the Dark: Digital Liturgy #4: Consumption

Chapter 8: Death by Minutiae: Digital Liturgy #5: Meaninglessness

Conclusion: Habits of Wisdom and Resistance

Acknowledgments

General Index

Scripture Index

Product Details

Title: Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age 

Author: Samuel D. James

Publisher: Crossway Publishing

Pages: 208

Binding: Paperback

Size: 21.5 x 13.9 x 1.6 cm

ISBN: 9781433587139