Final Keynote - Joint with Theologies of the Digital Conference
Sarah Schwettmann - ‘Neural Networks and Creativity’
Paper Session 6
Karsten Kopjar - ‘Virtual Creativity – How real are digital worlds and was Jesus XR (Mixed Reality)?’
Paper Session 5
Paper session 5A (1.00pm UK)
Chair: Jonas Kurlberg
Julius Stefanus Sibagariang - ‘Testing the Truth against the Flow of Information in a Digital Era: A Social-Rhetorical Interpretation of 1 John 4:1-6’
Simon Werrett - ‘The Divine Gaze: Reflections on Creation and Perception’
Paper session 5B (1.00pm UK)
Chair: Dan Washbrook
Thomas Schlag – ‘Critical creativity in processes of (post-)digital religious education’
Michael Toy - ‘Content Creating the Church into Being’’
Vistas of Creativity
Moderator: Agana-Nsiire Agana
An opportunity for people to share digital creativity and project
Paper Session 4
Chair: Pete Phillips
Kelly Woods - ‘Liberating Escapism: How Imagination, Creativity, and Gaming Help Navigate Spiritual Formation’
Anna Puzio – ‘Death Bots, Grief Bots, and Posthumous Avatars – A Christian Ethics Perspective’
Paper Session 3
Paper session 3A (1.00pm UK)
Chair: Frederike van Oorschot
Stephen Garner - ‘Technology, human agency, and partnership with God? Artificial intelligence and ethical co-creation’
Jody Hunt - ‘Who is to Blame? Navigating AI, Sin, and Intentionality in the Creative Digital Age’
Paper session 3B (1.00pm UK)
Chair: Kate Ott
Judith Mills - ‘Podcasting, “Theology and Ethics”’
Hadje C. Sadje - ‘The Plague of Artificial Intelligence and the Eclipse of Anthropocentric Arrogance: Decolonial-Theological Reflection from the Margins’
Research Roundtable
Chair: Ximian Xu
We gather in small groups to discuss what we are working on in digital theology - an opportunity to learn from peers, encourage each other and spot potential areas for collaboration.
Paper Session 2
Chair: Thomas Schlag
Ralf Peter Reimann - ‘AI and the Future of Liturgical Creation’
Zoltan Schwab - ‘Co-Creators in Genesis 1–3’
Paper Session 1
Paper session 1A (1.00pm UK)
Chair: Katherine Schmidt
Justin Joseph G. Badion & Rachel Joyce Marie O. Sanchez - ‘The Cyborg: Homo Oeconomicus to Homo Eroticus’
Willem Th. van Peursen & Samuel E. Entsua-Mensah - ‘Mimesis, Poiesis, and Imagination in Text-to-Image Generation’
Paper session 1B (1.-00pm UK)
Will Nicholas - ‘The Filioque, the Imago Dei, and Deus Ex Machina: Reimagining Theological Co-Creation in the Age of AI’
John Paul Arceno - ‘Virtual Jesus and Iconography: A Pixelated Christology in the Digital Age’