Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Image of God/Created Co-creator
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Catching up on some podcasts today I listened to this one from ABC’s The Spirit of Things. Some good thought provoking material, which intersects with the thesis chapter I’m editing at the moment (created co-creator stuff). See The Spirit of Things – 4 June 2006 – Epiphanies: Lord Robert Winston
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Spent the weekend filling in a gap between thesis chapters and adding some comments in a chapter about how different models of the imago Dei are challenged by techno-science. Came across this quote in my notes when looking at how the imago Dei maintains both a connection to the divine and to creation. It is…
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Science and Theology News has a collation of articles relating to ecology and religion available in a new mini-portal at Science & Theology News – Ecology. This includes the 2001 article “Ted Peters Reflects on Making the World a Better Place” which is of interest for me at the moment as I work through ideas…
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Something to bear in mind as I work through the interpretation and implications of the imago Dei in a techno-cultural society. In commenting on the interpretation of the imago Dei by figures such as Ambrose, Augustine, the Reformers, Hegel and Troeltsch, Barth writes of the Gen 1:26ff passage and its interpretation, We might easily discuss…
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The latest issue of Dialag, a Lutheran theological journal, has a collection of articles on technology and the human being in it’s latest issue. And that issue is now their current sample issue – it wasn’t a week or two back when I was getting ready to interloan it – with PDFs of the articles…
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Emergent Authorship: Player as Co-Creator by Celia Pearce on interactive computer games – especially massive multiplayer online games and “God-games”. From a cultural perspective, the ramifications of these new forms of entertainment is nothing short of revolutionary. Through these experiences, the consumer is thus transformed into consumer/producer and consumption itself becomes an act of production.…
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Off on Friday night to hear this public lecture at BCNZ by biblical scholar Joel Green. I’ve referred to some of his work in my thesis so it’ll be nice to put a voice to the articles. More details at Bible College of New Zealand – Events – Joel Green – What are They Saying…
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Democratic transhumanist James Hughes interviews Lutheran theologian Ted Peters (Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary & Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences) about theology, genetics and humans as created co-creators. Podcast at : Changesurfer Radio: Co-Creator Theology (2005-02-12).
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Slogging through understanding, appropriating and then adapting Philip Hefner’s metaphor as human beings as created co-creators into something of my own to apply to my research field (Christian anthropology, the imago Dei and emergent digital and transhuman technology). Figured I’d whack a summary out here so then when people ask me what I’m referring to…
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Reading this paper this morning and this quote stuck out, Humanity created in God’s image-and the church as the renewed imago Dei-is called and empowered to be God’s multi-sided prism in the world, reflecting and refracting the Creator’s brilliant light into a rainbow of cultural activity and socio-political patterns that scintillates with the glory of…