‘We do not rule; instead we are ruled. The thing, the world, rules humankind; humankind is a prisoner, a slave, of the world, and its dominion is an illusion. Technology is the power with which the earth seizes hold of humankind and masters it. And because we no longer rule, we lose the ground so that the earth no longer remains our earth, and we become estranged from the earth. The reason why we fail to rule, however, is because we do not know the world as God’s creation and do not accept the dominion we have as God-given but seize hold of it for ourselves … There is no dominion without serving God; in losing the one humankind necessarily loses the other. Without God, without their brothers and sisters, human beings lose the earth’. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Creation and Fall, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 3 (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004), 67.
[HT: W. Travis McMaken]
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Prophetic, seems like it was written just yesterday! Often Creation sadly is almost like a backwater in theology.
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Microsoft isn’t the target here, Jason – its Mac.
“I think one of his spies would — well, seem fairer and feel fouler, if you understand.”
Beware the angel of light…
;-)
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I agree that MS is not the target (the image was just too cool to not use); that prize goes to the human heart itself, the great ‘idol factory’ (as Calvin saw it). Truly, we are capable of great things.
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right on.
and this years before eco-criticism becomes a formidable philosophy in literature and art.
and in Christ we are free.
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Fantastic quote. Thanks for sharing it.
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