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TECHNOLOGY AND MONOTHEISM: A DIALOGUE WITH NEO-CALVINIST PHILOSOPHY

TECHNOLOGY AND MONOTHEISM: A DIALOGUE WITH NEO-CALVINIST PHILOSOPHY In Nature, Technology and the Sacred (2005) I argued that the modern project of the technological mastery of nature remains profoundly shaped by its religious roots. In this paper I explore connections and tensions between this analysis and the neo-Calvinist critiques of modernity and modern technology advanced by Herman Dooyeweerd and Hendrik van Riessen. I explore the relationship between Dooyeweerd’s analysis of Western culture as a sequence of religious ‘ground motives’ and my own in terms of the series of ‘orderings of the sacred’ which together constitute the ‘long arc of monotheism’. I relate van Riessen’s analysis of the internal structure of technology to my argument that this structure has been shaped by transformations in the sacred since the Protestant reformation. I conclude with some observations, prompted by the divergences between the two accounts, concerning the relationship between technology, monotheism, history and politics. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Philosophia Reformata Brill

TECHNOLOGY AND MONOTHEISM: A DIALOGUE WITH NEO-CALVINIST PHILOSOPHY

Philosophia Reformata , Volume 75 (1): 43 – Nov 17, 2010

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Brill
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© Copyright 2010 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0031-8035
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2352-8230
DOI
10.1163/22116117-90000481
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Abstract

In Nature, Technology and the Sacred (2005) I argued that the modern project of the technological mastery of nature remains profoundly shaped by its religious roots. In this paper I explore connections and tensions between this analysis and the neo-Calvinist critiques of modernity and modern technology advanced by Herman Dooyeweerd and Hendrik van Riessen. I explore the relationship between Dooyeweerd’s analysis of Western culture as a sequence of religious ‘ground motives’ and my own in terms of the series of ‘orderings of the sacred’ which together constitute the ‘long arc of monotheism’. I relate van Riessen’s analysis of the internal structure of technology to my argument that this structure has been shaped by transformations in the sacred since the Protestant reformation. I conclude with some observations, prompted by the divergences between the two accounts, concerning the relationship between technology, monotheism, history and politics.

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Published: Nov 17, 2010

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