1: Reimagining Genesis in the Age of AI 2: Incarnation in a Disembodied Age: The Flesh Shall Stream 3: Rewriting the Fall for the Algorithmic Age 4: Revelation, Silence, and Divine Disclosure in a Networked Age 5: Rituals of Code and the Search for Sacred Time 6: The Flesh Made Code and the Ethics of Embodied Flourishing 7: Hope, Judgment, and the End(s) of AI 8: Cyborgs, Care, and Christological Kinship 9: A Call to Digital Resistance and Holy Disruption 10: Case Studies in Theological Resistance Appendix: A Remix Manifesto for AI and the Church
Biography
Joshua K. Smith is a security professional with a background in AI and robotics. He is also a published author on the intersection of violence and technology.
“What an incredibly challenging and thought-provoking book! I love the notion of remix. Josh Smith is on exhilarating form as he takes a fresh look at how theology should respond to AI, and his Remix Manifesto is a bold invitation to think differently about the integration of AI into the relational vocation of imago dei.”
Eve Poole, Author of Robot Souls.
“This remarkable book does not simply ask what artificial intelligence means for Christian theology; it uses the advent of AI as a catalyst to rethink, remix, and reboot theology itself. With remarkable intellectual dexterity and close attention to and appreciation for the rich insights and values of the Judeo-Christian legacy, Joshua Smith demonstrates how our encounter with intelligent machines can serve as a creative and constructive moment for faith in the twenty-first century. The result is a bold and illuminating work that bridges technology and theology with both critical rigor and the spirit of renewal.”
David J. Gunkel, Northern Illinois University, US.
“This refreshingly honest read is full of new arrangements of technologists, theologians, and philosophers over the centuries that produces a playlist for faith and AI beyond the confines of doomsayers and ideologues. Approaching Christianity and AI with the same level of curiosity and an equal commitment to justice is no small task, though Smith makes it possible through epistolary like chapters that invite the reader into a poetic and capacious theological remixing of Christian practices and beliefs in light of AI.”
Kate Ott, the Jerre and Mary Joy Stead Professor of Christian Social Ethics and Director of the Stead Center for Ethics and Values at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, US. Author of Christian Ethics for a Digital Age and Sex, Tech, & Faith.
