Techne?
Summary
It wasn’t always this way, but there is an increasing number of resources out there on the internet exploring the topic of Christianity and technology.
As these articles, books, videos, podcasts come up in all sorts of places and I started to scribble a few notes about them to refer back to, and to help me digest them. And as I started doing this it was suggested that others might find these notes helpful.
This site isn’t trying to find all the resources, but instead to bring together the articles that caught my eye, gave me pause for thought, and helped me to see technology clearer through the lens of a Christian worldview.
At its most simplist you’ll find a short introduction and link to somewhere else. It might be a blog post to read, or a video to watch.
Where the content is longer form, or not in a written form, I’ll try to summarise some of the key ideas to be used as a reference point. The idea isn’t to tl;dr it but instead give more a gist of the content so that you can get into it yourself.
With other areas, such as books, I’ll try and give more of a review or a commentary of the content alongside a summary.
What about the name?
The name riffs off the Greek word tékhnē which conveys the idea of art, skill, or craft. You may have also noticed that it’s also at the root of the word technology.
It crops up in a couple of places in the New Testament– in Acts 18:3 where Paul meets Aquila and Priscilla. Aquila is a fellow tentmaker–
“…because he was of the same trade (tékhnē) he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.”
(Acts 18:3 ESV)
Paul had a tékhnē as a tentmaker. Jesus had a tékhnē as a carpenter. Pricilla had a tékhnē in clothwork. I have a tékhnē as a software engineer, and I want to explore how to practice my tékhnē Christian-ly.
A note about AI summaries
Because this started as a tool to help me read, to note, and digest the resources elsewhere, the content here is all hand-typed. There will be no generative AI summaries here. Which means that the typos also come from human hands.
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