The craft of the Word — an interactive book at the intersection of Biblical theology, information science, and philosophy.
Spirituality, information science, and intellectualism...rooted;
Technecy (from the Greek technē — craft, skill, art) names the discipline this book sets out to practice: the craft of handling words — and the Word — faithfully. The Bible describes a God who creates by speaking, reveals by writing, and redeems by becoming flesh. Information science studies how messages are encoded, transmitted, corrupted, and restored. Philosophy asks what words, signs, and knowledge are. This book reads each discipline in the light of the other two.
Start here → Preface: What Is Technecy?
- Babel: When Protocols Break
- The Canon: An Error-Corrected Channel
- Figures of Speech: Divine Compression
- The Book of Life: Records and Judgment
- Apocalypse: The Great Unveiling
- Practicing Technecy in a Digital Age
- Glossary — terms from all three disciplines, cross-referenced
- Further Reading
- Links
Each chapter weaves in elements meant to be done, not just read:
| Element | What it is |
|---|---|
| Selah | A pause for reflection — questions to sit with before reading on |
| Workbench | A hands-on exercise: count, diagram, measure, build |
| Closer Look | A collapsible deep-dive — click to expand |
| Checkpoint | A self-check quiz — click to reveal answers |
| Threads | Cross-links tracing an idea through other chapters |
A few chapters include live tools (an entropy meter, a scriptorium simulator) that run in your browser when read on the published site.
This is a living draft — base content laid down, growing chapter by chapter. Issues and pull requests with corrections, counter-arguments, and better examples are welcome.