A provisional recommended reading list on the relationship between the Christian faith, technology, science, and human flourishing.

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Book Recommendations for further study in the relationship between faith, technology, and human flourishing

Technology, Science, Faith, Ethics, and Culture

Modern Technology and the Human Future: A Christian Appraisal by Craig M. Gay (IVP Academic, 2018)

Transhumanism and the Image of God: Today’s technology and the future of Christian discipleship by Jacob Shatzer (IVP Academic, 2019)

Technology and the Rise of Transhumanism: Beyond genetic engineering by Michael Burdett (Grove Books, 2014)

The Tech-wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place by Andy Crouch (Baker, 2017)

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr (W.W. Norton, 2011)

Distracted: Reclaiming Our Focus in a World of Lost Attention by Maggie Jackson (Prometheus, 2018)

Abolition of Man by C.S Lewis (Harper, 2009)

Technopoly: The surrender of culture to technology by Neil Postman (Vintage Books, 1993)

God and Gadgets: Following Jesus in a Technological Age by Brad Kallenberg (Cascade, 2011)

Finding Ourselves after Darwin: Conversations on the Image of God, Original Sin, and the Problem of Evil edited by Stanley P. Rosenberg (Baker, 2018)

The Believing Scientist: Essays on Science and Religion by Stephen M. Barr (Eerdmans, 2016)

God, Freedom, and Human Dignity: Embracing a God-centered Identity in a Me-Centered Culture by Ron Highfield (IVP, 2013)

Adam and the Genome: Reading Scripture after Genetic Science by Dennis Venema and Scot McKnight (Brazos, 2017)

Shaping a Digital World: Faith, Culture, and Computer Technology by Derek C. Schuurman (IVP, 2013)

From Nature to Creation: A Christian Vision for Understanding and Loving Our World by Norman Wirzba (Baker, 2015)

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry, edited by Norman Wirzba (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2002)

The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering by Michael J. Sandel (Belknap Press, 2007)

Future Perfect? God, Medicine, and Human Identity edited by Celia Deane-Drummond and Peter Manely Scott (T&T Clark, 2010)

Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A philosophical inquiry by Albert Borgmann (University of Chicago Press, 1984)

Christian Ethics in a Technological Age by Brian Brock (Eerdmans, 2010)


Theological Anthropology

Body, Soul, and Human Life: The nature of humanity in the Bible by Joel Green (Baker, 2008)

Being Human: bodies, minds, persons by Rowan Williams (Eerdmans, 2018)

Love Thy Body: Answering hard questions about life and sexuality by Nancy R. Pearcey (Baker, 2018)

Theological Anthropology: A guide for the perplexed by Marc Cortez (T&T Clark, 2010)

God’s Many-Splendored Image: Theological Anthropology for Christian Formation by Nonna Verna Harrison (Baker, 2010)

Christological Anthropology in Historical Perspective: Ancient and Contemporary Approaches to Theological Anthropology by Marc Cortez (Zondervan, 2016)

Resourcing Theological Anthropology: A Constructive Account of Humanity in Light of Christ by Marc Cortez (Zondervan, 2017)

God’s Good World: Reclaiming the Doctrine of Creation by Jonathan R. Wilson (Baker, 2013)

Neuroscience and the Soul: The human person in philosophy, science, and theology edited by Thomas Crisp, Steven Porter, and Gregg Ten Elshof

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