Automation and Augmentation in Theological Perspective
Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 612-628, July 2026.Abstract AI enables forms of automation that threaten unemployment and deskilling, eliminating important opportunities for the development of virtue. The concomitant loss of virtue and meaningful employment makes it a theological problem from the perspective of Catholic social teaching and theological anthropology.
Paul Scherz
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Editing Eden: CRISPR, the Image of God, and the Ethics of Genetic Intervention. [PDF]
Linacre QOh JJ.
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“That We May Love the As Yet Unknown God”: The Meaning of Analogy in Augustine’s De Trinitate
Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 708-729, July 2026.Abstract Recent interest in the idea of analogy and the analogy of being, along with the apparent invocation of Augustine’s De Trinitate in the definition of Lateran IV, calls for a renewed investigation into the idea of analogy in the aforementioned text. Methodologically, “analogy” in De Trin. names a form of discourse which attempts to see the truth
Samuel J. Korb
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A new species and new generic synonymy in the family Vietnamellidae (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber with notes on ancient dispersal across East Gondwana. [PDF]
PeerJGodunko RJ +5 more
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CONSCIENCE AND THE ENDS OF HUMANITY: CHRISTIAN HUMANISM AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 559-571, July 2026.Abstract The astonishing speed of the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has sparked reflections by theologians and philosophers on what distinctiveness, if any, human beings possess as individuals and as a species. This article addresses this question with respect to an ancient idea in Christian thought reaching back to St.
William Schweiker
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A new hygropetric genus of Heptageniidae from southern China (Insecta, Ephemeroptera). [PDF]
ZookeysDeng M, Zheng X, Gong D, Zhou C.
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Austere Moral Ecologies and Artificial Agents
Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 592-611, July 2026.Abstract There are underappreciated moral costs for deploying artificially intelligent agents in our present bureaucratically and market‐structured world. Currently, AI systems lack the interiority and mutual vulnerability required for genuine moral relationality.
Manuel Vargas
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<i>Ameletus</i> Mayflies (Ephemeroptera: Ameletidae) of the Eastern Nearctic. [PDF]
InsectsFunk DH.
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Friendship in the New Political Theologies
Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 686-707, July 2026.Abstract As a distinct academic discipline, political theology rose and fell with Carl Schmitt. If there was any hope of redeeming it, the discipline would have to be entirely renewed. A deep‐seated and understudied feature of that renewal lies in the reconceptualisation of the political relation.
Andreas E. Masvie
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Description of a new species of subterranean termite in the genus <i>Reticulitermes</i> (Blattodea: Heterotermitidae) from southern California. [PDF]
Ann Entomol Soc AmChen JT +7 more
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