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Title: Religion und Theologie
Subtitle: Anmerkungen zu einem eher verdrängten Problem
Author(s): IRRGANG, Bernhard
Journal: ET-Studies
Volume: 1    Issue: 1   Date: 2010   
Pages: 3-24
DOI: 10.2143/ETS.1.1.2053950

Abstract :
For a long time technology has been the servant of religion. But in the last 200 years technology became an autonomous area of culture, occasionally even an substitute for religion. With the environmental problems and the so called posthumanism, there are two focal points where a new dialogue between technology and world-religions, especially between technology and Christian theology, is possible and should emerge. Technology is not threatening religion, but rather overflowing technological ideologies, which want to elicit the belief that happiness and a sense of life could be produced in a technical-instrumental way. But Christian theology will not attract attention through adherence to technologically outdated ideas about naturalness, but rather the intensified examination and discussion – initiated with the Second Vatican Council – about the technical modernity, which is transforming into hyper modernity.

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