The Digitalised Image of God - Artificial Intelligence, Liturgy, and Ethics

This book focuses on the idea of the imago Dei to engage theologically with artificial intelligence (AI). It reflects on how enormous progress in the development of AI has raised some challenges to Christian theology.

List of contents

1. A Holistic Reading of the Imago Dei: From the Imago Dei to Imago Hominis 2. The Consciousness of the Imago Hominis 3. The Worship of the Church and the AI-Powered Enactment of the Liturgy 4. Shall We Blame or Commend AI?: Artificial Moral Agency and AI's Moral Status 5. Artificial Companion or Companionable AI?: The Interaction between the Imago Hominis and the Imago Dei

About the author

Ximian Xu is Duncan Forrester Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and the Centre for Theology and Public Issues at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Before this, he was Kenneth and Isabel Morrison Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Theology and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in the University's School of Divinity and Edinburgh Futures Institute. He is the author of Theology as the Science of God: Herman Bavinck's Wetenschappelijke Theology for the Modern World (2022).

Summary

This book focuses on the idea of the imago Dei to engage theologically with artificial intelligence (AI). It reflects on how enormous progress in the development of AI has raised some challenges to Christian theology.

Product details

• Authors: Ximian Xu
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032397832
• ISBN: 978-1-03-239783-2
• No. of pages: 210
• Weight: 453 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Zeichnungen, schwarz-weiss
• Series: Routledge Science and Religion Series
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Christianity / Protestant, Artificial Intelligence, RELIGION / Ethics, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Religion & Science, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Religious ethics, Religion and science, Religion & science, COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / General, Protestantism & Protestant Churches, Protestantism and Protestant Churches