{"id":179821,"date":"2026-01-20T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/20\/faith-formation-and-the-algorithm-the-church-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T00:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:30:09","slug":"faith-formation-and-the-algorithm-the-church-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/20\/faith-formation-and-the-algorithm-the-church-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith, Formation, and the Algorithm: The Church in the Age of Artificial Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vts.edu\/deans-commentary\/faith-formation-and-the-algorithm-the-church-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence\/\">Faith, Formation, and the Algorithm: The Church in the Age of Artificial Intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vts.edu\/deans-commentary\/faith-formation-and-the-algorithm-the-church-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence\/\">https:\/\/vts.edu\/deans-commentary\/faith-formation-and-the-algorithm-the-church-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-20 00:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"vts.edu\">vts.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Shift in Theological Conversations<\/strong>: The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into everyday church life has led to changes in how intelligence, authority, creativity, and personhood are understood and negotiated by the church.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Author\u2019s Scholarly Pursuit<\/strong>: The author, Michael W. DeLashmutt, is finishing a book titled &#8220;Theology and Technology: After Intelligence&#8221;, which examines how AI affects ministry, theological imagination, and ministry practices.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Engaging Theological Narrative<\/strong>: The book argues that Christian theology has more to offer in discussions about AI than commonly supposed, positioning AI within a broader historical context of technology in the church.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Proposed Framework \u2013 Grounded Critical Use Theory<\/strong>: Introduces a framework that encourages thoughtful, discerning, and creative engagement with technology while avoiding technological determinism and excessive enthusiasm.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Interdisciplinary Approach<\/strong>: The book combines theology with cultural studies, anthropology, cybernetics, information science, and philosophy of technology to explore AI\u2019s impact on human vocation, the imago Dei, and various church practices.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Relevant to Modern Seminary<\/strong>: Given the integration of hybrid learning and digital ministry at the General Theological Seminary, these topics are central to current theological education and the church&#8217;s engagement with a rapidly changing world.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faith, Formation, and the Algorithm: The Church in the Age of Artificial Intelligence https:\/\/vts.edu\/deans-commentary\/faith-formation-and-the-algorithm-the-church-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/vts.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/logo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-179821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179823,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179821\/revisions\/179823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}