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Mark U. Edwards
Mark U. Edwards Jr., associate dean for academic affairs at Harvard Divinity School, wrote Printing, Propaganda, and Martin Luther (University of California Press).
The power of a picture: How Protestants imaged the gospel
In last year’s election campaign we were reminded that images can overpower words. The U.S....
January 25, 2005
Minding the faith
How Christian Faith Can Sustain the Life of the Mind. By Richard T. Hughes. Eerdmans, 172 pp., $18.00....
October 9, 2002
Our robots, ourselves
In Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg's film AI: Artificial Intelligence David is an android, created in the image of a human boy and designed to provide a couple with an emotional subst...
September 24, 2002
Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About, by Donald E. Knuth
Although many of us may be unfamiliar with the name Donald Knuth, not so computer scientists and programmers....
August 27, 2002
Electronic Luther
Luther's Works on CD-ROM. Version 1.0. Edited by Jaroslav Pelikan and Helmut T. Lehmann. Fortress/Concordia, $179.00....
January 15, 2002
Jesus in Disneyland, by David Lyon
According to Canadian sociologist David Lyon, the theory of secularization based on Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism--a "metanarrative" of the secularized acad...
September 11, 2001
Belief.net: An interreligious web site
"Here we have a multifaith, multi-approach, multi-ideological site flourishing—at a time when we’re supposed to be getting more fragmented, more contentious, more divided.” So wro...
May 16, 2001
Give Me That Online Religion, by Brenda E. Brasher
Brenda Brasher believes that each generation must articulate ideas of the divine that make sense against the backdrop of its own time....
April 17, 2001
Replacing the work ethic
The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age by Pekka Himanen...
April 10, 2001
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Media dominance: Who controls the web?
In the early 16th century, Martin Luther, assisted by enterprising printers unhandicapped by copyright laws, swamped the market with five pamphlets for every one put out by his Catholic opponents....
February 28, 2001
The pearly gates of cyberspace: Escaping from the body
Science writer Margaret Wertheim suggests in The Pearly Gates of CyberSpace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet that cyberspace has become for some a technological subs...
December 20, 2000
Virtual worship: A theological challenge
"There is no There there,” said Gertrude Stein about Oakland, California. “There is a different there there,” say I, an Oaklandite by birth, about virtuality....
December 6, 2000
Overinformed: Confessions of an information junkie
In Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut (1997) David Shenk tells of “technostress” researcher Philip Nicholson’s practice of asking his audiences, “Pretend that you were forced...
November 1, 2000
Signs of the times
Holding on to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium, by Albert Borgmann...
May 23, 2000
The digital Luther
Martin Luther: Exploring His Life and Times, 1483-1546, by Helmar Jughans (CD-ROM)...
March 14, 2000