This is really great! I thought the same thing when watching the recent Peterson interview. I also think that Tolkien, Lewis, and many of the saints would agree. I'd love to have a dialogue about this sometime.
Thanks Kyle! I totally agree with you. When I was reading the section on the Technocratic paradigm, I thought it just screamed "That Hideous Strength". I'm very interested in a dialogue about this. Look for an email from me later today!
Thanks for coming by! Yeah the theology of stewardship is woefully underdeveloped but is present throughout scripture and Christian tradition, it just hasn’t received serious attention. Of course, it hasn’t had to, because we weren’t capable of producing the level of waste and ecological destruction that we can now.
I haven’t read Snead or Trueman (although Rise and Triumph of the modern self is sitting on my bookshelf and is on my very long reading list) but I definitely agree with the sentiment that the people who want to manipulate human nature without any respect for reality are operating under the same paradigm as the people who try to manipulate the natural world without any respect to its limitations.
Essentially, both view nature as something we need to be “liberated” from rather than to respect.
You liked one of my posts so I’ll see your like and raise you a comment and a restack. Great work. Full disclosure I’m a Protestant but heavily influenced by many Catholics. This piece made me think of some old Calvin quotes about nature and stewardship that rarely receive air time. The pope’s words here made me think of an analogy that Carl Trueman gives about technology. How we can use technology to respect nature or defile it. He uses the image of building a dam to stop water vs building a bridge to go over water. One respects nature, the other forces our dominance over nature. I’m also wondering if you’ve read “what it means to be human” by O. Carter Snead, Catholic from Notre Dame, and a friend of a friend of mine. Your points about the elderly and the disabled made me think of him. That’s an excellent book, and his anthropology paradigm he uses in that book was really helpful for me. Really enjoyed this, especially the end “ Ultimately, Pope Francis is pointing out that we have gotten locked into modes of thinking that has placed man in the place of God, and because of that, all our relationships have become disordered” nice work
This is really great! I thought the same thing when watching the recent Peterson interview. I also think that Tolkien, Lewis, and many of the saints would agree. I'd love to have a dialogue about this sometime.
Thanks Kyle! I totally agree with you. When I was reading the section on the Technocratic paradigm, I thought it just screamed "That Hideous Strength". I'm very interested in a dialogue about this. Look for an email from me later today!
Thanks for coming by! Yeah the theology of stewardship is woefully underdeveloped but is present throughout scripture and Christian tradition, it just hasn’t received serious attention. Of course, it hasn’t had to, because we weren’t capable of producing the level of waste and ecological destruction that we can now.
I haven’t read Snead or Trueman (although Rise and Triumph of the modern self is sitting on my bookshelf and is on my very long reading list) but I definitely agree with the sentiment that the people who want to manipulate human nature without any respect for reality are operating under the same paradigm as the people who try to manipulate the natural world without any respect to its limitations.
Essentially, both view nature as something we need to be “liberated” from rather than to respect.
You liked one of my posts so I’ll see your like and raise you a comment and a restack. Great work. Full disclosure I’m a Protestant but heavily influenced by many Catholics. This piece made me think of some old Calvin quotes about nature and stewardship that rarely receive air time. The pope’s words here made me think of an analogy that Carl Trueman gives about technology. How we can use technology to respect nature or defile it. He uses the image of building a dam to stop water vs building a bridge to go over water. One respects nature, the other forces our dominance over nature. I’m also wondering if you’ve read “what it means to be human” by O. Carter Snead, Catholic from Notre Dame, and a friend of a friend of mine. Your points about the elderly and the disabled made me think of him. That’s an excellent book, and his anthropology paradigm he uses in that book was really helpful for me. Really enjoyed this, especially the end “ Ultimately, Pope Francis is pointing out that we have gotten locked into modes of thinking that has placed man in the place of God, and because of that, all our relationships have become disordered” nice work