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A Theology of Interconnectivity: Buber, Dialogue and Cyberspace [PDF]
, 2015 Relationships are a fundamental part of being human; they enable communication, a shared sense of belonging, and a means of building identity and social capital.
Moseley, Amanda Jane
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Cosmology and the Problem of Evil: God and the Second Law
ZygonFor decades, a discussion has raged over the explanation of the peculiarity of our universe due to its fine-tuned constants. One explanation is that ours is one of an infinite number of randomly produced universes.
Lawrence Cahoone
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Teaching Historical Theology at the University of Pretoria – Some introductory remarks
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017 The Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria went through a process of restructuring, resulting in the amalgamation of Dogmatics, Christian Ethics, Church History and Church Polity into one department under the name ‘Systematic and Historical ...
Wim A. Dreyer
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This essay introduces the themed cluster of articles, ‘Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI’. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in large language models capable of producing coherent discourse mimicking conversational interaction, is exerting unprecedented pressure on prevailing concepts of language, personhood, and the human ...
Webb Keane, Constantine V. Nakassis
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Eric Voegelin's thought and its significance for political theology [PDF]
, 1990 The philosopher Eric Voegelin (1901-85) held that at the heart of an adequate political philosophy must be a philosophy of consciousness. This study discusses Voegelin's thought in its significance for "political theology", by which is understood ...
Turner, Francis John
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General Trends in the Development of Western Christian Theology of the Postmodern Era
Культура України, 2018 The aim of the article is to identify strategies for the development of modern Western Christian theology, which is to find a way out of the crisis of the Christian worldview. Research Methodology.
E. V. Marakhovska
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
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THE FAULT IN US: ETHICS, INFINITY, AND CELESTIAL BODIES
Zygon, 2016 Catherine Keller's Cloud of the Impossible knits together process theology and relational ontology with quantum mechanics. In quantum physics, she finds a new resource for undoing the architecture of classical metaphysics and its location of autonomous ...
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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