@article{ART001872890},
author={DONG HWAN KIM},
title={A Theological Discourse on the Relation of Technology and Love},
journal={The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics},
issn={1229-8387},
year={2014},
number={28},
pages={81-105}
TY - JOUR
AU - DONG HWAN KIM
TI - A Theological Discourse on the Relation of Technology and Love
JO - The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
PY - 2014
VL - null
IS - 28
PB - The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
SP - 81
EP - 105
SN - 1229-8387
AB - The purpose of this article is to examine the relation of love and technology in a Christian theological view. At first, love is universal in its original character. This means that love is purely universal without any doctrinal or ideological assumption. In contrast, technology is universalistic in its basic character. This signifies that technology is intentionally universalistic in its conspiracy with some ideologies or doctrines. In this respect, love and technology are fundamentally incompatible. On account of the coercive and violent character of univeralistic technology, the sound way for them to be related is that the universal love is concerned with, embraces, and transforms the universalistic technology. However, it is difficult to anticipate the transformation of technology by love because the universalistic character of technology is as transformative as the universal character of love. The only way to anticipate it is that love has a unique character that surpasses technology. It is Christian love (agape) that can realize that anticipation. Through the Incarnation of Christ Jesus, it makes love concrete and not abstract, and in relation to technology, it enables love to overcome the fatal weakness of technology, i.e., ambiguity by giving love a unique character, embodiedness. Only when the relation of technology and love is extended to the relation of technology and agape (embodied/incarnated love), then technology and love can be cogently related, and even the transformation of technology by love can be anticipated.
KW - technology;love;character;agape;ambiguity;embodiedness
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DONG HWAN KIM. (2014). A Theological Discourse on the Relation of Technology and Love. The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics, 28, 81-105.
DONG HWAN KIM. 2014, "A Theological Discourse on the Relation of Technology and Love", The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics, no.28, pp.81-105.
DONG HWAN KIM "A Theological Discourse on the Relation of Technology and Love" The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics 28 pp.81-105 (2014) : 81.
DONG HWAN KIM. A Theological Discourse on the Relation of Technology and Love. 2014; 28 : 81-105.
DONG HWAN KIM. "A Theological Discourse on the Relation of Technology and Love" The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics no.28(2014) : 81-105.
DONG HWAN KIM. A Theological Discourse on the Relation of Technology and Love. The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics, 28, 81-105.
DONG HWAN KIM. A Theological Discourse on the Relation of Technology and Love. The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics. 2014; 28 81-105.
DONG HWAN KIM. A Theological Discourse on the Relation of Technology and Love. 2014; 28 : 81-105.
DONG HWAN KIM. "A Theological Discourse on the Relation of Technology and Love" The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics no.28(2014) : 81-105.
