Introduction: What the Web Means for Our Spiritual Lives
Part 1: Truth and Technology
Chapter 1: Embodied Wisdom in a Faceless Age
Chapter 2: How Technology Shapes Us
Chapter 3: Drowning in the Shallows
Part 2: Engaging the Digital Liturgies
Chapter 4: “My Story, My Truth”: Digital Liturgy #1: Authenticity
Chapter 5: The Abolition of Thought: Digital Liturgy #2: Outrage
Chapter 6: Shame on You: Digital Liturgy #3: Shame
Chapter 7: Naked in the Dark: Digital Liturgy #4: Consumption
Chapter 8: Death by Minutiae: Digital Liturgy #5: Meaninglessness
Conclusion: Habits of Wisdom and Resistance
Acknowledgments
General Index
Scripture Index
Endorsements
“This accessible but penetrating book shows how our late-modern, secular culture provides liturgies: soul-shaping practices and narratives that train us to turn from God to the sovereign self, from God-created nature to self-created reality, from living for truth and love to living for power. If you can’t see them, you can’t resist them, and the author gives you resources to do both. Samuel James has written an essential book. He is one of the small but growing number of young thinkers to whom the church must listen if it is to learn how to be effective in evangelism and formation in a post-Christendom world.”
Tim Keller, Founding Pastor, Redeemer Presbyterian Church, New York City; Cofounder, Redeemer City to City
“This is such a wise and insightful book. Its power lies in the way it exposes truths not just about the digital world but about us: the things we want, the way we try to find them, how the internet weaponizes them in ways we may not have noticed, and what we can do about it. Penetrating without being frightening, and positive without being naïve, Digital Liturgies is the guide we need.”
Andrew Wilson, Teaching Pastor, King’s Church London
“Digital Liturgies is a book that issues both a challenge and a call. Samuel James challenges our perspective by pulling back the curtain so we see that technology’s effects are not neutral, and our digital habits tilt us toward an online world that makes the wisdom of God seem like foolishness. But James also calls us to a better way, reorienting us toward greater understanding, wisdom, and the practices of resistance necessary for faithful and fruitful living. An accessible book full of profound insight.”
Trevin Wax, Vice President of Research and Resource Development, The North American Mission Board; Visiting Professor, Cedarville University; author, The Thrill of Orthodoxy; Rethink Your Self; and This Is Our Time
