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released 4/9/2025

In this May 2024 lecture, Andrew Willard Jones explains the two paths that exist with the development of new technologies: one which leads to an expansion of the humane world and one which exploits and truncates both Creation and humanity. The latter, which Jones calls technocracy, is parasitic on the humane world and slowly destroys it from within. By contrast, a humane world is ordered to divine reality and is full of dynamic potential for increasing wholeness, unity, and beauty. Jones gives examples from Christendom, which was a dynamic microcosm of the whole ordered and beautiful cosmos. He argues that the expansion of technocracy is always at the expense of our humanity and the world it has built, but he ends with hope that Christianity always provides what we need to win over our creations and preserve our humanity.

This lecture is provided courtesy of New Polity.

65 minutes

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