Digital Theology and a Potential Theological Approach to a Metaphysics of Information
In this article, I offer a background to digital theology and its methodology, exploring especially aspects of transhumanism and metaphysical enquiry. The article moves on to engage with several articles given at the Science and Religion Forum at Birmingham in 2022, especially the Gowland Lecture gi...
| Subtitles: | "Information and Reality: Contributions from the Science and Religion Forum" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2023
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Zygon
Year: 2023, Volume: 58, Issue: 3, Pages: 770-788 |
| Further subjects: | B
Incarnation
B John's Gospel B digital theology B Metaphysics B Information |
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| Summary: | In this article, I offer a background to digital theology and its methodology, exploring especially aspects of transhumanism and metaphysical enquiry. The article moves on to engage with several articles given at the Science and Religion Forum at Birmingham in 2022, especially the Gowland Lecture given by Professor Niels Gregersen and the Peacocke Lecture by Andrew Jackson. Both offer a metaphysical approach to information linked closely to the concept of Logos drawn from the Prologue of John - Jackson focusing on Maximus the Confessor's exploration of phylogenetic logoi; Gregersen on a further development of "Deep Incarnation" through the title "God with Clay" drawn from Bonaventure. The article extends this engagement with John by querying the model of incarnation in "deep incarnation" but building on the Logos/logoi to set out some initial building blocks for an alternative metaphysics of information. Information and Reality: Contributions fromthe Science and Religion Forum with Finley I. Lawson, "The Science and Religion Forum Discuss Information and Reality: Questions for Religions and Science"; Niels Henrik Gregersen, '"The God with Clay': The Idea of Deep Incarnation and the Informational Universe", Michael Burdett and King-Ho Leung, "The Machine in the Ghost: Transhumanism and the Ontology ofInformation"; Marius Dorobantu and Fraser Watts, "Spiritual Intelligence: Processing Different Information or Processing Information Differently?";Matthew Kuan Johnson and Rachel Siow Robertson, "A Co-Liberatory Framework for Big Data"; Peter M. Phillips, "Digital Theology and a Potential Theological Approach to a Metaphysics ofInformation"; and Andrew Jackson, "Peacocke Prize Essay - Towards an Eastern Orthodox Contemplation of Evolution: Maximus the Confessor's Vision of the Phylogenetic Logoi". |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Zygon
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12883 |