Formation in the Digital Age
Felicia Wu Song & Joel Lawrence
Joel Lawrence and Felicia Wu Song discuss the sociological, cultural, and theological issues around technology and spiritual formation in the 21st century. What fractures in our society were revealed by Covid? How has the pandemic shifted our thinking around community and embodiment? How does the pervasive presence of technology re-arranged our pastoral and discipleship priorities?
This conversation is occasioned by the release of the CPT's new edited volume Techne: Christian Visions of Technology and Song's Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age.
Technē
Christian visions of technology
264 pp.
Wipf & Stock, 2022
Restless Devices
Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age
232 pp.
IVP, 2021
Felicia Wu Song is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Westmont College. She holds degrees from Yale, Northwestern, and University of Virginia. Her research is oriented around the rapidly evolving digital technology industry and how the adoption of social media and digital devices fundamentally alters the landscapes of family, community, and organizational life. She is the author of Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age (IVP, 2021) and Virtual Communities: Bowling Alone, Online Together (Peter Lang 2009).
Joel Lawrence is the Executive Director of the Center for Pastor Theologians. He previously served as the Senior Pastor of Central Baptist Church in St. Paul, MN and as a Professor of Theology at Bethel Seminary. He holds a PhD in Systematic Theology from the University of Cambridge. He is a member of the St. Anselm Fellowship of the Center for Pastor Theologians.
