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The life we're looking for : reclaiming relationship in a technological world / Andy Crouch.

By: Publisher: New York : Convergent, [2022]Edition: First EditionDescription: viii, 226 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 059323734X
  • 9780593237342
Other title:
  • Life we are looking for
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HM756 .C75 2022
Contents:
What we thought we wanted: the loneliness of a personalized world -- Heart, soul, mind, strength: what we've forgotten about being a person -- The superpower zone: how we trade personhood for effortless power -- Modern magic: the ancient roots of our tech obsession -- Money and Mammon: how impersonal power rules our world -- Boring robots: why the next tech revolution will succeed--and also fail -- Intermission: the body of the messiah in the emperor's court -- Exiting the empire: redemptive moves for an impersonal age -- From devices to instruments: truly personal technology -- From family to household: living together as persons -- From charmed to blessed: the community of the unuseful -- The chain of persons.
Summary: "A deeply reflective primer on creating meaningful connections, rebuilding abundant communities, and living in a way that engages our full humanity in an age of unprecedented anxiety and loneliness-from the author of The Tech-Wise Family. Our greatest need is to be recognized-to be seen, loved, and embedded in rich relationships with those around us. But for the last century, we've displaced that need with the ease of technology. We've dreamed of mastery without relationship (what the premodern world called magic) and abundance without dependence (what Jesus called Mammon). Yet even before a pandemic disrupted that quest, we felt threatened and strangely out of place: lonely, anxious, bored amid endless options, oddly disconnected amid infinite connections. In The Life We're Looking For, bestselling author Andy Crouch shows how we have been seduced by a false vision of human flourishing-and how each of us can fight back. From the social innovations of the early Christian movement to the efforts of entrepreneurs working to create more humane technology, Crouch shows how we can restore true community and put people first in a world dominated by money, power, and devices. There is a way out of our impersonal world, into a world where knowing and being known are the heartbeat of our days, our households, and our economies. Where our vulnerabilities are seen not as something to be escaped but as the key to our becoming who we were made to be together. Where technology serves us rather than masters us-and helps us become more human, not less"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-226).

What we thought we wanted: the loneliness of a personalized world -- Heart, soul, mind, strength: what we've forgotten about being a person -- The superpower zone: how we trade personhood for effortless power -- Modern magic: the ancient roots of our tech obsession -- Money and Mammon: how impersonal power rules our world -- Boring robots: why the next tech revolution will succeed--and also fail -- Intermission: the body of the messiah in the emperor's court -- Exiting the empire: redemptive moves for an impersonal age -- From devices to instruments: truly personal technology -- From family to household: living together as persons -- From charmed to blessed: the community of the unuseful -- The chain of persons.

"A deeply reflective primer on creating meaningful connections, rebuilding abundant communities, and living in a way that engages our full humanity in an age of unprecedented anxiety and loneliness-from the author of The Tech-Wise Family. Our greatest need is to be recognized-to be seen, loved, and embedded in rich relationships with those around us. But for the last century, we've displaced that need with the ease of technology. We've dreamed of mastery without relationship (what the premodern world called magic) and abundance without dependence (what Jesus called Mammon). Yet even before a pandemic disrupted that quest, we felt threatened and strangely out of place: lonely, anxious, bored amid endless options, oddly disconnected amid infinite connections. In The Life We're Looking For, bestselling author Andy Crouch shows how we have been seduced by a false vision of human flourishing-and how each of us can fight back. From the social innovations of the early Christian movement to the efforts of entrepreneurs working to create more humane technology, Crouch shows how we can restore true community and put people first in a world dominated by money, power, and devices. There is a way out of our impersonal world, into a world where knowing and being known are the heartbeat of our days, our households, and our economies. Where our vulnerabilities are seen not as something to be escaped but as the key to our becoming who we were made to be together. Where technology serves us rather than masters us-and helps us become more human, not less"-- Provided by publisher.

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