Co-Creation and Work in an Increasingly Technological World

Victoria Lorrimar

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Chapter 19 Co-Creation and Work in an Increasingly Technological World

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Pages:: 400–414

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004696235_025

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Our understanding of and capacity for work is being transformed by emerging human enhancement technologies. Developments in Genetic, Robotic, Information and Nanotechologies (GRIN) may impact the type of work that we do, and our ability to do it. David Bosch’s Ministry for the Whole People of God missiological paradigm is taken as a starting point for reflecting theologically on work, but requires additional resources to engage the increasingly technological nature of work. Accordingly, this chapter explores theological understandings of humans as ‘co-creators’ with God who are generally optimistic about the role that technology might play in our human vocation, and outlines some of the principles that should guide a responsible engagement with the technologies that are impacting our work practices. Additionally, these technologies have implications for justice, premised as they often are on a notion of human flourishing that overlooks much of the majority world and will only serve to increase inequality. Critiquing the visions of human flourishing that underlie various enhancement proposals, the chapter considers ways in which flourishing might properly be construed in a missiological sense to enable us to ‘re-faith’ our work in an increasingly technological world.

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Transforming Work

Missiological Perspectives for the Church in the World

Series: Theology and Mission in World Christianity, Volume: 30

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004696235

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 08 May 2024

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