Eschatology and the Technological Future
- Submitting institution
-
University of Nottingham, The
- Unit of assessment
- 31 - Theology and Religious Studies
- Output identifier
- 1358515
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
-
10.4324/9781315739397
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138826335
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
-
-
- Supplementary information
-
-
- Request cross-referral to
- -
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
-
0
- Research group(s)
-
-
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 251-page book assesses whether and how Christian eschatology can integrate recent technological futurisms. It traces the latent religious sources of the contemporary technological imagination by tracing accounts of technology and the future in historical technological utopias and science fiction literature, also drawing on past theological and philosophical responses with Martin Heidegger, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Jacques Ellul. Turning to constructive theology, the argument focuses on themes of possibility and promise and highlights points of correspondence and divergence between technological futurisms and Christian eschatology. It utilises extensive research in utopia studies, science fiction studies, eschatology and continental philosophy.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- -
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
- -
