Analog Christian : Cultivating Contentment, Resilience, and Wisdom in the Digital Age
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| Title: | Analog Christian : Cultivating Contentment, Resilience, and Wisdom in the Digital Age |
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| Description: | The Gospel Coaltion Award of Distinction—Christian LivingOutreach Resource of the YearThe digital age is in the business of commodifying our attention. The technologies of our day are determined to keep us scrolling and swiping at all costs, plugged into a feedback loop of impatience, comparison, outrage, and contempt. Blind to the dangers, we enjoy its temporary pleasures, unaware of the damage to our souls.Jay Kim's Analog Church explored the ways the digital age and its values affect the life of the church. In Analog Christian, he asks the same question of Christian discipleship. As the digital age inclines us to discontentment, fragility, and foolishness, how are followers of Jesus to respond? What is the theological basis for living in creative resistance to the forces of our day? How can Christians cultivate the contentment, resilience, and wisdom to not only survive but to thrive as we navigate the specific challenges of our age? |
| Authors: | Jay Y. Kim |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Technology--Religious aspects--Christianity, Fruit of the Spirit |
| Categories: | RELIGION / Christian Living / Social Issues, RELIGION / Christian Living / Personal Growth, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | The Gospel Coaltion Award of Distinction—Christian LivingOutreach Resource of the YearThe digital age is in the business of commodifying our attention. The technologies of our day are determined to keep us scrolling and swiping at all costs, plugged into a feedback loop of impatience, comparison, outrage, and contempt. Blind to the dangers, we enjoy its temporary pleasures, unaware of the damage to our souls.Jay Kim's Analog Church explored the ways the digital age and its values affect the life of the church. In Analog Christian, he asks the same question of Christian discipleship. As the digital age inclines us to discontentment, fragility, and foolishness, how are followers of Jesus to respond? What is the theological basis for living in creative resistance to the forces of our day? How can Christians cultivate the contentment, resilience, and wisdom to not only survive but to thrive as we navigate the specific challenges of our age? |
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| ISBN: | 9781514003169 9781514003176 |
