Re-Enchanting the Earth: Why AI Needs Religion

In this bold new work, scientist and theologian Ilia Delio takes up the challenge of devising a rapproachement between science and religion, with particular attention to the role of Artificial Intelligence, or AI. If the "first axial age" gave rise to the great religions, she sees us now on the cusp of a "second axial age," in which AI, oriented by new religious sensibilities, can bring about an ecological re-enchantment of the earth.

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Re-Enchanting the Earth: Why AI Needs Religion

In this bold new work, scientist and theologian Ilia Delio takes up the challenge of devising a rapproachement between science and religion, with particular attention to the role of Artificial Intelligence, or AI. If the "first axial age" gave rise to the great religions, she sees us now on the cusp of a "second axial age," in which AI, oriented by new religious sensibilities, can bring about an ecological re-enchantment of the earth.

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Re-Enchanting the Earth: Why AI Needs Religion

Re-Enchanting the Earth: Why AI Needs Religion

by Ilia Delio
Re-Enchanting the Earth: Why AI Needs Religion

Re-Enchanting the Earth: Why AI Needs Religion

by Ilia Delio

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In this bold new work, scientist and theologian Ilia Delio takes up the challenge of devising a rapproachement between science and religion, with particular attention to the role of Artificial Intelligence, or AI. If the "first axial age" gave rise to the great religions, she sees us now on the cusp of a "second axial age," in which AI, oriented by new religious sensibilities, can bring about an ecological re-enchantment of the earth.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781626983823
Publisher: Orbis Books
Publication date: 09/16/2020
Pages: 264
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction xi

1 Holism and Human Evolution 1

2 Axial Consciousness 27

3 The Rise of the Individual 41

4 The Forgotten Openness of the Closed World 63

5 In Search of Relational Wholeness 87

6 The Posthuman Social Imaginary 113

7 Teilhard and Life in the Noosphere 133

8 Second Axial Religion 157

9 Posthuman Spirituality 177

10 Church of the Planet 189

Conclusion: Where Are We Going? 211

Index 227

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