Faith, Reason, and the Technological Horizon

A FaithBytes Seminar Workbook on Wonder, Mystery & Awe

This seminar workbook invites you into the Church's long conversation between faith, reason, science, and technology at a moment when that conversation has become urgent. Artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and the technological reshaping of daily life pose questions the tradition has been preparing to answer for centuries: What is the ultimate meaning of a creation that science describes so precisely? What happens to reverence when everything appears controllable? Can knowledge serve the person rather than dominate her? How is innovation ordered to virtue? And how does the contemplative life survive in an economy of attention?

Strand: Wonder, Mystery & Awe; Unplugging
Grade band: Higher Ed; Higher Education (undergraduate and graduate; ages 18 and up)

Five lessons · substrand alignment

A

Contemplating Creation: Science, Theology, and Ultimate Meaning

Wonder at Creation
B

Against Determinism: Providence, Mystery, and the Limits of Mastery

Mystery Beyond Technology
C

Integrating Faith and Reason in the Life of the Mind

Faith and Science in Harmony
D

Prudence in Innovation: Ordering Progress to Virtue and the Common Good

Wisdom & Responsibility
E

Contemplative Resistance: Interior Freedom in an Economy of Attention

Prayer, Silence, & Contemplation

Big questions

How can dialogue among science, theology, and technology illuminate creation's ultimate meaning?
How does technological determinism diminish reverence for mystery, and how is divine providence a greater reality than human mastery?
What does it mean to integrate faith and reason within one's academic or professional discipline?
How do prudence and moral reasoning order innovation, research, and design toward virtue, dignity, and the common good?
What spiritual practices protect interior freedom against over-reliance on productivity and digital stimulation?

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