Artificial intelligence and religious communication: theological perspectives on the common humus of ‘our common home’
The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping contemporary social and religious communication, bringing a range of theological implications. Amidst these transformations, the evidence of a ‘common humus’ emerges, enabling social interrelations and also making life possible in the ‘comm...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Practical theology
Year: 2025, Volume: 18, Issue: 2, Pages: 114-126 |
| RelBib Classification: | KDB Roman Catholic Church NCC Social ethics NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics RH Evangelization; Christian media ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
| Further subjects: | B
Common Good
B Evangelization B Artificial Intelligence B integral digital humanism B common home B Communication |
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| Summary: | The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping contemporary social and religious communication, bringing a range of theological implications. Amidst these transformations, the evidence of a ‘common humus’ emerges, enabling social interrelations and also making life possible in the ‘common home’ that encompasses everything and everyone. From the perspective of Practical Theology and in dialogue with Pope Francis’ magisterium, this text reflects on the challenges posed by AI systems to religious communication and the construction of the common good amidst the ecological interrelationships between human beings and digital technologies. To this end, the text focuses on three dimensions of this common humus: the symbolic, addressing the construction of ‘the common’ through the ‘linguistic turnaround’ brought about by AI; the socio-technological, analyzing the interrelations between the media ecology of AI systems and our common home; and the cultural-theological, advocating for a cordial communication in the construction of the common good in this age of AI. In conclusion, advocating for an integral digital humanism, we affirm that the sociocultural and religious-theological challenges of AI require an approach that cannot be exclusively human, but rather humanized and humanizing, accountable for the ‘common humus’ that sustains life in our ‘common home’. |
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| ISSN: | 1756-0748 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Practical theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1756073X.2025.2476306 |
