Technological Development and the Mission of the Church

Abstract

What is the Christian motive for technological development? And what is the Christian way of stimulating it in underdeveloped countries? To these questions Hedrick suggests a radical answer — “radical” not in the sense of “new” because it is as old as Christianity, but in the sense of a fundamental questioning of present usual patterns and assumptions, as fundamental as conversion. The analysis of the motives behind Pakistani industrialization will be stimulating to readers in many parts of the world, and his discussion of a new pattern of mission should give us some long second thoughts.