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Chesterton Perspectives brings you:
The Word Became – Digital: The Disembodying Thrust of Modern Technology
A conversation with Craig Gay, Professor Craig M. Gay, Regent College
April 27, 2026
7:30 pm EST in person
7:45pm EST via Zoom
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. He formed the human from the dust of the earth, then commanded the human to engage in technological development so that humans could become free from their bodies, from the constraints of space and time, from the awkwardnesses of real encounters in the body, and finally from death itself.
Of course, we immediately recognize this as a parody, but how often do we live in our digitally-saturated world as if it were true? As if we were meant to live not as embodied human beings made to worship the God of creation, incarnation, and resurrection and to abide in incarnate relationship with others in community, but as humans accepting a call from The Digital to advance into a transhumanist future which aims deliver us from our bodily limitations?
Unlike early forms of technology, like hammers and windmills and printing presses, modern automatic machine technology is increasingly removing us from a vital and intimate connection with the Creator and the creation. It is affecting our cognition, our skills, our possibilities for employment, and making us more lonely and disconnected from concrete communities of friends we can lean on.
All of this doesn’t come without real benefits. But at what cost? Is technological advance worth the cost of diminishing our ordinary embodied human existence?
Join us for a Chesterton Perspectives event with Craig Gay to explore these questions and to see how the Christian story about a God who creates, incarnates himself, and bodily resurrects the dead invites us to rediscover the centrality of ordinary embodied human existence in the world.
Professor Craig M. Gay, Regent College
Craig M. Gay lectures in the area of Christianity, Society, and Culture and is the Secretary of the College’s Anglican Studies Program. He is the author of With Liberty or Justice for Whom? (Eerdmans, 1991); The Way of the (Modern) World (Eerdmans, 1998); Cash Values: The Value of Money the Nature of Worth (Eerdmans, 2004); Dialogue, Catalogue and Monologue (Regent College Publishing, 2008); and Modern Technology and the Human Future: A Christian Appraisal (IVP Academic, 2018). He was also the co-editor (with C. Peter Molloy) of The Way of Truth in the Present Age (Regent College, 1999). He has contributed chapters to a number of collections on the subjects of modernity, secularization, economic ethics, and technology, and his articles and reviews have appeared in Christian Scholar’s Review, American Journal of Sociology, Crux, and Markets & Morality. Craig is an ordained Deacon in the Anglican Church of North America. He and his wife, Julie, are active members of St. John’s Vancouver Anglican Church. They have four grown children.
