The Digitalised Image of God: Artificial Intelligence, Liturgy, and Ethics (Routledge Science and Religion Series)

This book focuses on the idea of the imago Dei to engaging theologically with artificial intelligence (AI).It reflects on how enormous progress in the development of AI has raised some challenges to Christian theology.Questions explored include: is AI created in the imago Dei?If so, does AI challenge the uniqueness of the human being as the imago Dei?If not, could AI be incorporated into human communities as a human companion in the same way as a natural human person?Would AI eventually develop to have human-level consciousness and be capable of performing liturgies and ethical actions?Bringing to light the radical distinction between the imago Dei and the imago hominis, the book constructs a theo-ontological foundation for AI and draws on the Reformed theology of archetype-ectype as a metaphysical tool to deploy a holistic account of the imago Dei in theology-AI dialogues.The author argues that the imago Dei is the signifier of the beginning both of God-human stories and stories of hu