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Computer Theology

Author : Timothy Jurgensen
Publisher : Midori Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0980182115
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Computer Theology written by Timothy Jurgensen and published by Midori Press LLC. This book was released on 2008 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computers are complex tools of the human species. To make them work well for us, we have to specify their actions in very great detail. When properly instructed, networks of computers take on the trappings of human social orders derived from the physiological characteristics and capabilities of our species. To create a social order, we engage in grouping mechanisms through which the actions of the individuals within the group are influenced. From a technical perspective, such grouping mechanisms form the trust environments within which we can effect policy. Historically, the most comprehensive such environments have been formed by religions. Within a specific religion, the policy framework is established by a statement of theology. So, if we connect all the dots, when we want to tell our computers how to act in a manner paralleling human social orders, we must define for them a theology. So goes the rationale explored in great detail by the authors of Computer Theology. Based on their combined tenure of almost a century working in the realms of computer systems and their ubiquitous networks, du Castel and Jurgensen have expressed both social and computer systems through the same concepts. The result offers a unique perspective on the interconnection between people and machines that we have come to understand as the World Wide Web.

Digital Theology

Author : Erkki Sutinen
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839825340
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Digital Theology written by Erkki Sutinen and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital theology is an emerging and evolving field of research in academia. It is gaining traction with scholars across a variety of subjects including; Computer Science, Theology, Sociology of Religion and the wider Humanities.

Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks about

Author : Donald Ervin Knuth
Publisher : Stanford Univ Center for the Study
ISBN 13 : 9781575863276
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks about written by Donald Ervin Knuth and published by Stanford Univ Center for the Study. This book was released on 2001-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a computer scientist understand infinity? What can probability theory teach us about free will? Can mathematical notions be used to enhance one's personal understanding of the Bible? Perhaps no one is more qualified to address these questions than Donald E. Knuth, whose massive contributions to computing have led others to nickname him "The Father of Computer Science"—and whose religious faith led him to understand a fascinating analysis of the Bible called the 3:16 project. In this series of six spirited, informal lectures, Knuth explores the relationships between his vocation and his faith, revealing the unique perspective that his work with computing has lent to his understanding of God. His starting point is the 3:16 project, an application of mathematical "random sampling" to the books of the Bible. The first lectures tell the story of the project's conception and execution, exploring its many dimensions of language translation, aesthetics, and theological history. Along the way, Knuth explains the many insights he gained from such interdisciplinary work. These theological musings culminate in a surprising final lecture tackling the ideas of infinity, free will, and some of the other big questions that lie at the juncture of theology and computation. Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About, with its charming and user-friendly format—each lecture ends with a question and answer exchange, and the book itself contains more than 100 illustrations—is a readable and intriguing approach to a crucial topic, certain to edify both those who are serious and curious about their faiths and those who look at the science of computation and wonder what it might teach them about their spiritual world. Includes "Creativity, Spirituality, and Computer Science," a panel discussion featuring Harry Lewis, Guy L. Steele, Jr., Manuela Veloso, Donald E. Knuth, and Mitch Kapor.

Digital Theology

Author : Erkki Sutinen
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839825367
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Digital Theology written by Erkki Sutinen and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital theology is an emerging and evolving field of research in academia. It is gaining traction with scholars across a variety of subjects including; Computer Science, Theology, Sociology of Religion and the wider Humanities.

Technology and Theology

Author : William H. U. Anderson
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648890865
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Technology and Theology written by William H. U. Anderson and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology is growing at an exponential rate vis-à-vis humanity’s ability to control it. Moreover, the numerous ethical issues that technology raises are also troubling. These statements, however, may be alarmist—since Telus would tell us “The Future is Friendly”. The Modernist vision of the future was utopic, for instance Star Trek of the 1960s. But postmodern views, such as are found in Blade Runner 2049, are dystopic. Theology is in a unique interdisciplinary position to deal with the many issues, pro and con, that technology raises. Even theologians like Origen in the third century and Aquinas in the thirteenth century made forays into Artificial Intelligence and surrounding issues (they just didn’t know it at the time). Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Transhumanism raise questions about what it means to be human. What is consciousness? What is soul? What are life and death? Can technology really save us and give us eternal life? Theology is in a unique position to handle these questions and issues. This book also has practical applications in terms of ecclesiology (church) in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic—both in terms of what it means to be a church and in terms of the sacraments or ordinances. Is there such a thing as a “Virtual Church” or must we gather physically to constitute one? Are Baptism and Communion legitimate if one is not physically in a church building but are “online”? This book struggles with these and many other questions which will help the scholar or reader make up their own minds, however tentatively.

Theology and Technology, Volume 1

Author : Carl Mitcham
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666790699
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Theology and Technology, Volume 1 written by Carl Mitcham and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published nearly forty years ago as a spiritual successor to Carl Mitcham and Robert Mackey’s Philosophy and Technology, the essays collected in the two volumes of Theology and Technology span an array of theological attitudes and perspectives providing sufficient material for careful reflection and engagement. The first volume offers five general attitudes toward technology based off of H. Richard Niebuhr’s five ideal types in Christ and Culture. The second volume includes biblical, historical, and modern theological engagements with the place of technology in the Christian life. This ecumenical collection ranges from authors who enthusiastically support technological development to those cynical of technique and engages the Christian tradition from the church fathers to recent theologians like Bernard Lonergan and Jacques Ellul. Taken together, these essays, some reproductions of earlier work and others original for this project, provide any student of theology a fitting entrée into considering the place of technology in the realm of the sacred.

Love, Technology and Theology

Author : Scott A. Midson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567689964
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Love, Technology and Theology written by Scott A. Midson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores love in the context of today's technologies. It is difficult to separate love from romanticist ideals of authenticity, intimacy and depth of relationship. These ideals resonate with theological models of love that highlight the way God benevolently created the world and continues to love it. Technologies, which are designed in response to our desires, do not necessarily enjoy this romanticist resonance, and yet they are now remodelling the world. Are technologies then antithetical to love? In this volume, leading theologians have brought together themes of theology, technology and love for the first time, exploring different areas where notions of love and technology are problematized. In a world where algorithms and artificial intelligences interact with us and shape our lives in ever more intricate and even intimate ways, we might feel attachments to and through machines that suggest sentiments of love while also changing how we think about love. Does love always have to be reciprocal? How can we enact love and care for others with technologies? Whose desires do technologies serve – consumers, corporations, creatures? This volume offers a systematic review of the challenges of living in a technologically saturated world, by means of critical application of, as well as reflection on, theological discussions about love.

Postdigital Dialogues on Critical Pedagogy, Liberation Theology and Information Technology

Author : Peter McLaren
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135009997X
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Postdigital Dialogues on Critical Pedagogy, Liberation Theology and Information Technology written by Peter McLaren and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postdigital Dialogues on Critical Pedagogy, Liberation Theology and Information Technology presents a series of dialogues between Peter McLaren, a founding figure of critical pedagogy, and Petar Jandric, a transdisciplinary scholar working at the intersections between critical pedagogy and information technology. The authors debate the postdigital condition, its wide social impacts, and its relationship to critical pedagogy and liberation theology, as part of a transdisciplinary effort to develop a new postdigital revolutionary consciousness in the service of humanity. Throughout the dialogues we see how McLaren's thinking on critical pedagogy and liberation theology have developed since the publication of Pedagogy of Insurrection, and how these developments play out in Jandric's theory of the postdigital condition. The book includes a foreword by Peter Hudis and an afterword by Michael A. Peters.

Theology and Psychology

Author : Fraser Watts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135187991X
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Theology and Psychology written by Fraser Watts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people are now interested in the relationship between religion and science, but links between Christian belief and psychology have been relatively neglected. This book opens up the dialogue between Christian theology and modern scientific psychology, approaching the dialogue in both directions. Current scientific topics like consciousness and artificial intelligence are examined from a religious perspective. Christian themes such as God's purposes and activity in the world are then examined in the light of psychology. This accessible study on psychology and Christian belief offers students and general readers alike important insights into new areas of the 'science and religion' debate. Fraser Watts is Starbridge Lecturer in Theology and Natural Science at the University of Cambridge, UK, and author of many books including Christians and Bioethics (SPCK); Science Meets Faith (SPCK), Psychology for Christian Ministry (Routledge), and The Psychology of Religious Knowing (CUP).

Shaping a Digital World

Author : Derek C. Schuurman
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830884440
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Shaping a Digital World written by Derek C. Schuurman and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital technology has become a ubiquitous feature of modern life. Our increasingly fast-paced world seems more and more remote from the world narrated in Scripture. But despite its pervasiveness, there remains a dearth of theological reflection about computer technology and what it means to live as a faithful Christian in a digitally-saturated society. In this thoughtful and timely book, Derek Schuurman provides a brief theology of technology, rooted in the Reformed tradition and oriented around the grand themes of creation, fall, redemption and new creation. He combines a concise, accessible style with penetrating cultural and theological analysis. Building on the work of Jacques Ellul, Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman, and drawing from a wide range of Reformed thinkers, Schuurman situates computer technology within the big picture of the biblical story. Technology is not neutral, but neither is there an exclusively "Christian" form of technological production and use. Instead, Schuurman guides us to see the digital world as part of God's good creation, fallen yet redeemable according to the law of God. Responsibly used, technology can become an integral part of God's shalom for the earth.

The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information

Author : Luciano Floridi
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470756764
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)

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Book Synopsis The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information by : Luciano Floridi

Download or read book The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information written by Luciano Floridi and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Guide provides an ambitious state-of-the-art survey of the fundamental themes, problems, arguments and theories constituting the philosophy of computing. A complete guide to the philosophy of computing and information. Comprises 26 newly-written chapters by leading international experts. Provides a complete, critical introduction to the field. Each chapter combines careful scholarship with an engaging writing style. Includes an exhaustive glossary of technical terms. Ideal as a course text, but also of interest to researchers and general readers.

Computing and Philosophy in Asia

Author : Soraj Hongladarom
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443807435
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Computing and Philosophy in Asia written by Soraj Hongladarom and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of selected papers presented at the Second Asia-Pacific Computing and Philsosophy Conference, which was held in Bangkok, Thailand in January 2005. The conference was organized by the Center for Ethics of Science and Technology, Chulalongkorn University on behalf of the International Association of Computing and Philosophy (www.ia-cap.org). Computing have had a long relationship with philosophy, starting from the problem of how symbols being manipulated in computing bear a relation to the outside world, to those of artificial intelligence, robotics, computer simulation, and so on. Moreover, as computer technologies have become thoroughly pervasive in today's environment, there are also issues concerning social and ethical impacts brought about by them. The papers in the volume represent a wide variety of concerns and various dimensions within which computing and philosophy are related. Furthermore, it also represents some of the first attempts to highlight cultural dimensions of computing and philosophy, which became prominent when the conference was held for the first time within the milieu of an Asian culture. (The First Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy was held in Canberra, Australia.) Hence, many of the papers in the volume address this added dimension. Apart form the usual problems of how computers and human lives are interconnected, the papers here also discuss how computers are related to human lives as lived in a specific culture. Thus the book breaks a new ground and should be of interest to a wide range of scholars and students who are interested, not only on computing and philosophy generally construed, but also on this exciting new dimension of how the cultures of Asia, the West, and others bear upon the traditional issues in computing and philosophy, and on how this dimension raises some new concerns and agenda. Among the topics discussed in this volume are: political online forums in Saudi Arabia, e-democracy and structural transformation of public sphere, the Buddhist informational person, a glance into the lives of computerized generation in Thailand, technology and journalism in the market, local approaches and global potential (?) of information ethics, computer-enhanced good life, computer teaching ethics, and many others.

Anti-Human Theology

Author : Peter M. Scott
Publisher : Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0334043549
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Anti-Human Theology written by Peter M. Scott and published by Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to the vigour of its re-engineering of the world by its technologies, western society has entered into a postnatural condition in which standard divisions between the natural and artificial are no longer convincing. This title develops an 'anthropology' that doesn't repeat Christianity's history of anthropocentrism but instead criticises it.

Corporeal Theology

Author : Tobias Tanton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192884581
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Corporeal Theology written by Tobias Tanton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appropriating insights from empirical findings and theoretical constructs of 'embodied cognition', this study explores how theological understanding is accommodated to the bodily nature of human cognition. The principle of divine accommodation provides a theological framework for considering the human cognitive capacities that are accommodated by theological concepts and ecclesial practices. A rich portrait of the nature of human cognitive capacities is drawn from an emerging paradigm in cognitive science, embodied cognition, which proposes that cognition depends upon bodily sensorimotor systems to ground concepts and to draw upon environmental resources. Embodied cognition's hypothesis that human concepts are grounded in sensorimotor states poses a theological quandary for God-concepts, since identifying God with sensorimotor content risks idolatry. The incarnation resolves this problem in theological epistemology by grounding God-concepts in bodily understanding, while avoiding idolatry. Thus, the incarnation represents an accommodation to human conceptual capacities. Embodied cognition further hypothesises that cognition relies on sensorimotor engagement with the world rather than internal mental representations. Subsequently, in addition to the brain, bodily states and environmental artefacts 'scaffold' cognitive processes. A scaffolded view of cognition highlights the cognitive import of embodied religious practices, which choregraph the body and curate material culture. Tobias Tanton applies dozens of studies identifying mechanisms by which bodily or environmental factors influence cognition to the embodied and material dimensions Christian practices. On account of their inherent cognitive effects, practices are theorised to have intrinsic 'embodied' meanings alongside 'symbolic' ones established by conventions. Consequently, liturgy is seen as a bearer of theological content rather than merely an expression of it; a locus of religious experience; and a crucial determinate of religious and ethical formation. Again, the embodied nature of Christian liturgy is understood in terms of accommodation. Embodied cognition research helpfully illuminates the details of human embodiment to which theological understanding must be accommodated.

Theology and Technique

Author : Jacques Ellul
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725259796
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Theology and Technique written by Jacques Ellul and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-02-21 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theology and Technique is a posthumous, incomplete volume drafted in the 1970s that nevertheless constitutes a significant addition to the Ellul corpus. Working from Jacques Ellul's original outline, a collaborative team including three of Ellul's children, a grandson, and Ellul scholars has assembled previous partial publications that Ellul himself approved for eventual incorporation along with relevant unpublished essays and notes into a book which throws the relationship between Ellul's radical theology and sociological critique into fresh perspective. Frederic Rognon contributes an especially insightful general introduction. The translation by Christian Roy is a model of rendering the complexities of the French original into English. This latest Ellul publication will be essential to any serious attempt to appreciate the scope and depth of Ellul's Christian engagement with the challenges of the contemporary world.

Cybertheology

Author : Antonio Spadaro
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823257029
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Cybertheology written by Antonio Spadaro and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because the Internet has changed and is changing the ways in which we think and act, it must also be changing the ways in which we think Christianity and its theology. Cybertheology is the first book to explore this process from a Catholic point of view. Drawing on the theoretical work of authors such as Marshall McLuhan, Peter Levy, and Teilhard de Chardin, it questions how technologies redefine not only the ways in which we do things but also our being and therefore the way we perceive reality, the world, others, and God. “Does the digital revolution affect faith in any sense?” Spadaro asks. His answer is an emphatic Yes. But how, then, are we to live well in the age of the Internet? Spadaro delves deeply into various dimensions of the impact of the Net on the Church and its organization, on our understanding of revelation, grace, liturgy, the sacraments, and other classical theological themes. He rightly points out that the digital environment is not merely an external instrument that facilitates human communication or a purely virtual world, but part of the daily experience of many people, a new “anthropological space” that is reshaping the way we think, know, and express ourselves. Naturally, this calls for a new understanding of faith so that it makes sense to people who live and work in the digital media environment. In developing the notion of cybertheology, Spadaro seeks to propose an intelligence of faith (intellectus fidei) in the era of the Internet. The book’s chapters include reflections on man the decoder and the search engines of God, networked existence and the mystical body, hacker ethics and Christian vision, sacraments and “virtual presence,” and the theological challenges of collective intelligence.

Journal of Moral Theology, Volume 11, Special Issue 1

Author : Matthew J. Gaudet
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666744476
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Journal of Moral Theology, Volume 11, Special Issue 1 written by Matthew J. Gaudet and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of Contents An Introduction to the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Matthew J. Gaudet Artificial Intelligence and Moral Theology: A Conversation Brian Patrick Green, Matthew Gaudet, Levi Checketts, Brian Cutter, Noreen Herzfeld, Cory Labrecque, Anselm Ramelow, OP, Paul Scherz, Marga Vega, Andrea Vicini, SJ, Jordan Joseph Wales Artificial Intelligence and Social Control: Ethical Issues and Theological Resources Andrea Vicini, SJ Can Lethal Autonomous Weapons Be Just? Noreen Herzfeld Artificial Intelligence and the Marginalization of the Poor Levi Checketts We Must Find a Stronger Theological Voice: A Copeland Dialectic to Address Racism, Bias, and Inequity in Technology John P. Slattery Can a Robot Be a Person? De-Facing Personhood and Finding It Again with Levinas Roberto Dell’Oro Metaphysics, Meaning, and Morality: A Theological Reflection on A.I. Jordan Joseph Wales Theological Foundations for Moral Artificial Intelligence Mark Graves The Vatican and Artificial Intelligence: An Interview with Bishop Paul Tighe Brian Patrick Green Epilogue on AI and Moral Theology: Weaving Threads and Entangling Them Further Brian Patrick Green