We were made in the image of God. The machines are being made in ours. From Babel to AI confronts the collision between these two realities, tracing the line from Babel’s ambition to the transhumanist promise that technology can perfect what God already declared good. Two volumes. One urgent argument. For the scholar and the…
The tower still rises. From Silicon Valley boardrooms to biohacking labs, the ancient ambition to remake humanity in our own image has returned with unprecedented power. From Babel to AI traces that ambition from Genesis to the present, asking the question the engineers will not… What happens to human dignity when we treat the imago Dei as a design problem to be optimized?
Available in two volumes, this series equips both the academy and the church to confront artificial intelligence and transhumanism with theological depth, scriptural grounding, and moral courage. One volume arms scholars and students with rigorous analysis and applied case studies. The other meets believers where they live, pairing accessible reflection with devotional prayer. Together, they form a single argument: faithfulness in a technological age begins with remembering whose image we bear.
This is the scholarly backbone of the From Babel to AI project. Rooted in biblical theology and theological anthropology, Volume 1 dismantles the philosophical assumptions driving transhumanism and AI-driven redefinitions of personhood, then rebuilds a Christological account of human identity that can withstand the pressure.
Each chapter pairs sustained theological argument with an applied case study, making the book as useful in the seminar room as in private research. Topics range from the Tower of Babel as paradigmatic act of technological self-deification, to the erosion of embodiment in posthumanist thought, to the ethical fault lines of algorithmic decision-making.
Written for graduate students, seminary faculty, and scholars working at the intersection of theology, ethics, and technology, this volume does not settle for hand-wringing about AI. It offers a constructive framework, grounded in Scripture and sharpened by engagement with both confessional and critical scholarship, for understanding what it means to be human when the machines insist the question is obsolete.
The phone in your pocket, the algorithms shaping what you see and believe, the quiet pressure to measure your worth in metrics; these are not neutral forces, and the soul knows it.
Volume 2 takes the theological substance of the From Babel to AI project and translates it for the pew, the small group, and the kitchen table. Each chapter walks through the same terrain as Volume 1, but in language built for reflection rather than footnotes, closing with a devotional prayer that grounds the reader in Scripture and invites the Holy Spirit into the conversation.
This is not a book about fearing technology. It is a book about remembering who you are: an image-bearer, breathed into being by a God who calls you by name. For pastors, ministry leaders, and any believer who wants to stay rooted in Christ while the digital world shifts beneath their feet.
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