Christian Humanist Profiles 263: Jeff Bilbro

March 03, 2025 00:58:42
Christian Humanist Profiles 263: Jeff Bilbro
Christian Humanist Profiles
Christian Humanist Profiles 263: Jeff Bilbro

Mar 03 2025 | 00:58:42

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Nathan P Gilmour

Show Notes

With the obvious exception of Plato’s Phaedrus, really old books don’t spend much time on technology.  Perhaps the tools didn’t change fast enough.  Perhaps their writing materials were expensive enough that they didn’t want to spend time on instrumental matters.  Perhaps the questions just never occurred to them.  But some time in the modern era, folks started to write about the ways that our tools change and the ways that new sets of tools shape our souls for good and for ill.  And one of the moments when those changes were doing the most–the most harm or the most benefit we’ll talk about as the hour rolls along–was the nineteenth century.  Jeff Bilbro’s new book Words for Conviviality explores some of the writers engaging with those changes and invites us to hold up those nineteenth-century moments as mirrors to our own, and Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to invite him back on the show.

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