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Returning to reality : Thomas Merton's wisdom for a technological age / Phillip Thompson.

By: Publication details: Cambridge : Lutterworth Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 107 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780718841515
  • 0718841514
  • 9781299252875
  • 1299252877
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Returning to reality.DDC classification:
  • 261.5/6 23
LOC classification:
  • BR115.T42
Online resources:
Contents:
A contemplative critique -- Avoiding the nuclear apocalypse -- Reforming the information age -- Choosing to be human or transhuman -- Some balm for Gilead -- Conclusion: From the watchtower.
Summary: We are becoming a nation of superficial and distracted consumers of instant messages and images, a state of being which does not aid engagement in religious and other deep commitments that require a sustained level of reflection and contemplation. In his thought-provoking work, Phillip M. Thompson analyses the shadow elements of technology - nuclear armaments, the bio-engineering of humans, and the distancing of humanity from the natural world - through the fascinating insights of the spiritual writer and monk Thomas Merton (1915-1968). Merton's work offers an important critique and healing re.
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A contemplative critique -- Avoiding the nuclear apocalypse -- Reforming the information age -- Choosing to be human or transhuman -- Some balm for Gilead -- Conclusion: From the watchtower.

We are becoming a nation of superficial and distracted consumers of instant messages and images, a state of being which does not aid engagement in religious and other deep commitments that require a sustained level of reflection and contemplation. In his thought-provoking work, Phillip M. Thompson analyses the shadow elements of technology - nuclear armaments, the bio-engineering of humans, and the distancing of humanity from the natural world - through the fascinating insights of the spiritual writer and monk Thomas Merton (1915-1968). Merton's work offers an important critique and healing re.

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