AI for Christian Theology
eBook - ePub

AI for Christian Theology

  1. 126 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

AI for Christian Theology

About this book

What if theology was never meant to be static? What happens when the act of faith is reimagined across generations, cultures, and now, code? How can diverse theological perspectives work together to build ethical AI?

This book explores how AI offers a new lens for understanding faith, challenging communities to see theology as a dynamic, creative process rather than a static tradition.

This book examines how Christianity itself is a tradition of reimagining and reinventing. From Scripture woven from fragments of law, prophecy, and poetry to Christ as the Logos made flesh, faith has always been transmitted, transformed, and re-voiced in response to new contexts. Through chapters on Christology, eschatology, and ecclesiology, the book reimagines salvation, identity, and mission in light of AI ethics, neural networks, and posthuman theology. It celebrates fidelity and transformation, embracing hybridity, resisting binaries, and reframing the church as an ever-evolving community in a digital age.

Designed for theologians, pastors, students, and anyone curious about the intersection of faith and technology, this book offers fresh insights for engaging Scripture, worship, and doctrine.

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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2026
eBook ISBN
9781040708637

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Endorsements Page
  3. Half-Title Page
  4. Series Page
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright Page
  7. Contents
  8. About the Author
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Reimagining Genesis in the Age of AI
  11. 2 Incarnation in a Disembodied Age: The Flesh Shall Stream
  12. 3 Rewriting the Fall for the Algorithmic Age
  13. 4 Revelation, Silence, and Divine Disclosure in a Networked Age
  14. 5 Rituals of Code and the Search for Sacred Time
  15. 6 The Flesh Made Code and the Ethics of Embodied Flourishing
  16. 7 Hope, Judgment, and the End(s) of AI
  17. 8 Cyborgs, Care, and Christological Kinship
  18. 9 A Call to Digital Resistance and Holy Disruption
  19. 10 Case Studies in Theological Resistance
  20. Appendix: A Remix Manifesto for AI and the Church
  21. Index

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