RT Article
T1 Practicing the Patience of God: A Response to Technologically Induced Impatience by Way of Ancient Holy Habit
JF Journal of spiritual formation & soul care
VO 12
IS 2
SP 177
OP 197
A1 Baker, Samuel E.
LA English
PB Sage Publishing
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1809857120
AB This article addresses three interrelated concerns: the pervasive nature of technologically induced impatience, a theological understanding of divine patience, and, finally, a suitable response to techno-impatience by way of engagement with the art and practice of holy habit. As we have experienced faster flows of information, and larger amounts of information through which we must sort, we have become less patient people. This loss of patience continues to produce a new kind of personal and communal disquiet on an impressive scale. To address concerns with techno-impatience, arguments will be drawn from scriptural and theological concepts of divine patience. These concepts prompt us to rediscover, and reinvent, a richer understanding of patience as an individuated spiritual virtue. Accordingly, a corrective to the exacerbating effects of technologically induced impatience will be offered: namely, the explicit spiritual discipline of practicing holy patience.
K1 Virtue
K1 theology of technology
K1 holy habit
K1 Spiritual Discipline
K1 divine patience
K1 impatience
K1 Patience
K1 Technology
DO 10.1177/1939790919867716