The Gospel and Technology – Recommended Resources
*More advanced/academic titles
General Books
Tim Challies, The Next Story: Life and Faith after the Digital Explosion, (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011).
Tim Chester, Will you be my Facebook Friend?: Social Media and the Gospel, (Leyland, UK: 10Publishing, 2013).
*Arthur W. Hunt III, The Vanishing Word: The Veneration of Visual Imagery in the Postmodern World (Crossway Books: Wheaton, 2003).
*Samuel D. James, Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age, (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2023).
Tony Reinke, 12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You, (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2017).
Tony Reinke, Competing Spectacles: Treasuring Christ in the Media Age, (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2019).
Tony Reinke, God, Technology and the Christian Life, (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2022).
*Felicia Wu Song. Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Prescence and Place in the Digital Age, (Downers Grove: IVP, 2021).
Prescient Classics
*Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society, (NY/UK: Vintage, 1967).
*Jacques Ellul, The Technological System, (Oregon: Wipf & Stock, 2018).
*CS Lewis, The Abolition of Man, (California: Harperone, 2001).
CS Lewis, That Hideous Strength (Book 3 in Lewis’ Science Fiction Space Trilogy), (NY: Scribner, 2003).
General Articles
Joe Carter “7 Ways Smartphones can Enhance your Christian Life.” The Gospel Coalition (11 January, 2017) https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/7-ways-smartphones-can- enhance-your-spiritual-life/
Andrew Errington, “Tools, Technology and Attention” The Gospel Coalition Australia (22 July, 2015) https://au.thegospelcoalition.org/article/tools-technology-and-attention/
Michael Jensen, “How did we Get Here? Christians Analysing Contemporary Culture (2/2) The Gospel Coalition Australia, (18 Aug, 2021).
Dru Johnson, “Spiritual lessons from my dumb phone” Christianity Today (17 March, 2022) https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2022/march-web-only/spiritual-lessons-from-my- dumb-phone.html
Brett McCracken, “The Wisdom Pyramid”, Brett McCracken Blog (13 August, 2017) https://www.brettmccracken.com/blog/2017/8/3/the-wisdom-pyramid
Russell Moore, “Fake Love, Fake War: Why So Many Men Are Addicted to Internet Porn and Video Games”, Desiring God, (May 25, 2012). https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/fake-love-fake-war
*Tim Patrick, “Theological Education with Low Relational Contact” The Gospel Coalition Australia (23 Feb 2016) https://au.thegospelcoalition.org/article/theological-education- with-low-relational-contact/
Carl Trueman, “Obsession with self identity, sexuality and rewriting history: How we got where we are today” CS Lewis Institute Broadcast Talks Vol 7 No. 3 (15 August, 2022) https://www.cslewisinstitute.org/resources/obsession-with-self-identity-sexuality-and-rewriting- history-where-we-are/
Parenting, Family and Technology
Tim Challies, The Next Story: Faith, Friends, Family and the Digital World, (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2015).
David Clark, You, your family and the internet: What every Christian in the digital age ought to know (Leominster, UK: 2012).
Amy Crouch and Andy Crouch, My Tech-Wise Life: Growing Up and Making Choices in a World of Devices (US: Baker Books, 2020).
Andy Crouch, The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in its Proper Place (US: Baker Academic, 2017).
Sean McDowell, “You are the smart in smart phone” Christian Parenting: Perfectly Imperfect (19 July, 2022) https://www.christianparenting.org/articles/you-are-the-smart-in-smart- phone/
Reflections on Digital Bibles
*Tim Hutchings, “9 Studying Apps: Research Approaches to the Digital Bible” in Part 3 Digital Communication of Digital Methodologies in the Sociology of Religion Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor & Suha Shakkour (eds.) (2015) https://www.academia.edu/22921056/Studying_Apps_Research_Approaches_to_the_Digital_Bible
David Mitchell, “Make the Most of the Digital Bible” The Gospel Coalition Australia (19 June 2020) https://au.thegospelcoalition.org/article/make-the-most-of-the-digital-bible/
Matt Smith, “Why you should ditch your digital bible.” The Gospel Coalition Australia, (2 June, 2020) https://au.thegospelcoalition.org/article/why-you-should-ditch-your- digital-bible/
Reflections on Human Enhancement/Transhumanism
*John C. Lennox, 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity, (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Reflective, 2020).
*Victoria Lorrimar, Human Technological Enhancement and Theological Anthropology, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022).
*Jacob Shatzer, Transhumanism and the Image of God: Today’s Technology and the Future of Christian Discipleship, (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2019).