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Artificial Creativity and Human Fragility

open access: yesModern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 543-558, July 2026.
Abstract This article critiques the widespread assumption that generative AI systems exhibit genuine artistic creativity. While such systems can produce novel and aesthetically appealing outputs, assessments based solely on results obscure fundamental differences between human and artificial agents.
Johanna Merz
wiley   +1 more source

Automation and Augmentation in Theological Perspective

open access: yesModern 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
wiley   +1 more source

First Communion Celebrations in Manggarai Flores and The Pastoral Implications on Faith Family Education

open access: yes
The Eucharist, one of the seven sacraments in the Catholic Church, holds a central and pivotal role in Christian life. Through this sacred ritual, Christians find communion with Christ, who is presented in the consecrated bread and wine.
Lon, Yohanes S., Widyawati, Fransiska
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Austere Moral Ecologies and Artificial Agents

open access: yesModern 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Coptic Church in the Aftermath of the Second Vatican Council: Theological or Tactical Anti‐Judaism?

open access: yesModern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 667-685, July 2026.
Abstract Vatican II's declaration on the Jews, absolving them from collective guilt of deicide, marked a significant turning point in Catholic theology. Arab governments tended to perceive this development as evidence that Catholics (or Christians generally) were taking the side of Zionist Jews in the Arab‐Israeli conflict.
Amir Krispel
wiley   +1 more source

Collective Care and Rural Transitions: The Role of Empathy in Addressing Land Degradation

open access: yesSociologia Ruralis, Volume 66, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Land degradation in rural areas is often addressed through technical and economic measures, while the relational and emotional dimensions of governance remain underexplored. This study examines how empathy operates within participatory land governance, drawing on a participatory scenario planning (PSP) workshop conducted in the Târnava Mare ...
Ruxandra Malina Petrescu‐Mag   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Democratisation By Default? Change and Continuity of Poland's Contemporary Democracy Promotion in Its Eastern Neighbourhood

open access: yesContemporary European Politics, Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Following a breakdown in the post‐1989 liberal consensus that governed Polish democracy promotion in its eastern neighbours under Law and Justice's term from 2015, we can expect policy changes to Polish democracy promotion. Paying tribute to historical explanations of Poland's democracy promotion, this article links the historical legacies of ...
Wicke van den Broek
wiley   +1 more source

Remembering the Stages, Forgetting the Person: Who Really Was Graham Wallas?

open access: yesThe Journal of Creative Behavior, Volume 60, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT One hundred years after the publication of The Art of Thought (1926), Graham Wallas remains widely cited yet poorly understood. His stages of preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification continue to circulate as a foundational model of creativity, even as the life that gave rise to them has largely faded from view.
Kyung Hee Kim
wiley   +1 more source

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