Christianity and Artificial Intelligence

Twenty units on the one technology no seminary curriculum anticipated. The course does not treat AI as a gadget to bless or ban; it treats it as a mirror held up to the doctrine of the human person, and asks what breaks and what holds.

Part I (ch. 1-5) lays the anthropology: what AI and AGI actually are and are not, whether machine intelligence threatens or merely misreads the imago Dei, what in a human being is not a computation, the promise and danger of calling humanity a 'co-creator,' and the Babel narrative as the church's oldest resource for thinking about technology that works. Part II (ch. 6-10) turns to justice and the body: algorithmic bias measured against biblical mishpat and tsedaqah, labor displacement and the ethics of neighbor-love, transhumanism against the resurrection of the body, medical AI and a theology of life, and the stewardship demanded by a technology no one fully controls. Part III (ch. 11-15) is pastoral practice: AI in sermon preparation and the question of the Spirit's illumination, the real limits of a chatbot's care, whether digital fellowship is koinonia, AI in discipleship and Christian formation, and church administration. Part IV (ch. 16-19) closes on the largest claims made for and against the technology: the consciousness debate, the technological singularity read against biblical eschatology, what theological education must become, and - last - the pastoral identity that no machine can occupy.

Scripture is quoted from the World English Bible. Where Christians of different traditions genuinely disagree - on the soul, on the resurrection body, on eschatology, on what counsels a pastor may outsource - this course names who holds what rather than picking a winner.