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Technology and Freedom: The Faustian Bargain of Modern Life. Since the day of his creation, man has been tasked to take dominion over the works of nature, using his godlike reason and creativity to fashion tools to enrich the world and actualize its hidden potencies. But since Genesis 3, this calling has been perverted by our desire to transcend our own natural limitations and be as gods. Our technologies reflect both that original calling and that idolatrous striving, as well as a means by which, in God's mercy, we seek to ameliorate or roll back the curse of the fall--relieving the pain of childbirth and making the soil more fruitful. Today, as our technological making has been harnessed to a modern ideal of freedom as self-expression and breaking boundaries, the idolatrous dimension of technology has loomed large, turning our quest for freedom into a road to slavery. In this lecture open to the public, Dr. Brad Littlejohn will seek to offer a theologically-rich diagnosis of our current technological condition, and why our every attempt to use technology to enhance freedom seems to end in greater slavery. To learn more about New College Franklin, visit our website: https://www.newcollegefranklin.edu/