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Divine Wisdom in the Digital Age

Sergius Bulgakov's Sophiology and Its Relevance to AI, Cybernetics, and Life-Extension Technologies

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Divine Wisdom in the Digital Age

Sergius Bulgakov's Sophiology and Its Relevance to AI, Cybernetics, and Life-Extension Technologies

Description

What role, if any, should AI technologies have in the church and to what end?

In this book, Walter Sisto contends that the sophiological perspective of Father Sergius Bulgakov (1871-1994) lays a path for the church during the rapid rise of artificial intelligence. What distinguishes Bulgakov's theology is not merely his Russian Orthodox sophiological framework, but his prophetic vision for the Church's active engagement with modernity-a vision this book seeks to extend. Building upon Bulgakov's theological thought primarily written during his Paris period, Sisto articulates an Eastern Christian response to cybernetic, life extension, and AI technologies that speaks not only to Eastern Catholics and Orthodox believers, but to all Christians confronting ethical challenges posed by technologies that threaten to redefine human identity and humanity's unique role within creation.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Bulgakov and his Sophiology
2: Sophiology and an Analysis of Cybernetic Technologies
3: Sophiology and the AI Revolution
4: A Sophiology of Death and Indefinite Life Extension Technologies
Conclusion
Bibliography

Product details

Published 06 Aug 2026
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 288
ISBN 9781978767645
Imprint T&T Clark
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Walter N. Sisto

Walter N. Sisto is Associate Professor at D’Youvil…

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