Themes
The three doctrinal arguments that organize Christian thinking about technology.
Creation: Why Christians Built Machines
The deepest Christian argument for technology is not utilitarian. It is doctrinal. Creation is intelligible, the human creature is made to know it, and inventing is one of the ways that knowing becomes a return of love to the One who made what is known.
Fall: When Tools Become Systems
The Christian tradition's sharpest insight about technology is not that any particular machine is dangerous. It is that ensembles of machines, embedded in markets, bureaucracies, militaries, and platforms, become systems whose total logic exceeds any individual intention. The Fall, in the technological register, is the system.
Redemption and Eschatology: Healing, Resurrection, and False Salvation
Christianity has always claimed that death is the enemy and that healing is a sign — partial, real, never sufficient — of a defeat of death that only resurrection completes. Every serious Christian conversation about medical technology, longevity, AI in healthcare, and the digital extension of life eventually arrives at this question. The technologies that promise to extend or transcend bodily life are unintelligible apart from it.