11/07/2025 08:30
- 10:45
HALL: Personalentwicklung Seminar Room
Proponent:
Attard J.C.
Chair:
Müller S.
Speaker:
Attard J.C.,
Gové J.,
Salfinger M.
At a time when suffering remains a central theme in theology, theology must be attuned to the sufferings of the "people" - especially of the poor - so as to be better equipped to engage in an authentic culture of dialogue with those who are at the periphery. Such a dialogue can also be reflected in inter-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches - especially with the social sciences - which can help theology to rediscover what constitutes the "people" without absolutizing that very constitution. Catholic theology must not be afraid to see itself reflected in that very context it hopes to transform, for its mission is about incarnating the Gospel of Jesus Christ from within the context and culture of the "people" themselves.
Engaging in an authentic culture of dialogue in the 21st century is not possible, however, without taking into account the challenges brought about by artificial intelligence (AI). Questions must be consistently reformulated, for it is no longer appropriate for theology to simply pass on knowledge, professional competence and experience to the men and women who desire to grow as Christians but must also take up the urgent task of developing intellectual tools that can serve as paradigms for action and thought in a world in which the boundary between the spatial and the online, the physical and the virtual, and the touchable and the visual are blurred as never before.
This panel brings together young scholars working on different themes in contemporary theology, from corporeality from a liberation theological perspective to a theology from the Mediterranean, from intersectional feminism to cognition and consciousness in AI. The aim is to discuss what a sound ethical anthropology in the age of AI might look like.