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God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
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89/100Author:
Meghan O'Gieblyn
Publisher:
Doubleday
Date:
August 24, 2021
A meditation on what it might mean to be human in an age of ever-accelerating technology.
What The Reviewers Say
... fascinating, brilliant, comprehensive, and beautiful.
Instead of a cri de cœur, O’Gieblyn gathers, analyzes, and disseminates a broad swath of theological, intellectual, and technological history to offer some sense of the intellectual condition in which we find ourselves today...The strength of O’Gieblyn’s book rests on her ability to distill the arguments of a number of great thinkers on questions surrounding this technology, and she traces her ability to plumb these depths and emerge with something coherent to her time as a Christian in Bible school, when she learned to debate for hours ideas such as predestination and covenant theology.
... nimble.
Though O’Gieblyn laces her reflections with scholarship illuminating historical and cultural context, her narrative is ultimately sustained by her very personal account of a painful philosophical evolution. A compelling reminder that the deepest philosophical queries guide and shape life..
