Pub Date : 2023-06-23DOI: 10.1080/1474225X.2023.2223425
K. Wills
on humanity’ (204–5). Asserting the importance of independent human review/intervention in algorithmic decision-making systems is indeed crucial as is retaining moral accountability of designers and users in autonomous systems. Peckham does, however adopt a rather extreme position (based on earlier discussion) that ‘digital surveillance of citizens is a breach of privacy and freedom and should be banned’ (205). This fails to recognise that privacy is never an absolute right. In law there are justifiable grounds for surveillance such as for national security or where an offence is suspected. It is not a ‘breach of privacy’ to be subject to surveillance systems in contexts where children or vulnerable adults are receiving care. A much more developed theological understanding of privacy and of freedom would have led to stronger conclusions. Peckham’s book articulates highly pertinent concerns around AI but his biblical and theological hermeneutics are insufficiently developed to adequately underpin and drive home his conclusions. Readers who identify with Peckham’s concern for ‘what the Bible teaches’ (xiii) from within the broadly Protestant Evangelical perspective will find useful supplementary reading in, for example, Albert Borgmann’s Power Failure: Christianity in the Culture of Technology (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2003) or Brian Brock’s Christian Ethics in a Technological Age (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2010).
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Pub Date : 2023-06-09DOI: 10.1080/1474225X.2023.2219500
J. Astley
ABSTRACT This article attempts to frame the theology and teaching of Ann Loades within the categories of practical theology and Christian education. After outlining the author’s academic relationship with Loades, the author analyses the meaning of the phrase ‘practical theology’ and some aspects of the debate surrounding the term. He contends that Loades’s wide-ranging reflections on the practices of Christian prayer and spirituality, worship and liturgy, and ethics and belonging may be regarded as examples of such a practical theology. The author’s concept of ‘ordinary theology’ is then employed as a bridge into an exploration of Christian learning and teaching, which draws parallels between both Loades’s interpretation of a ‘learning Christ’ and her perspectival account of spiritual vision, and the views of other Christian educationalists and theologians. Although Ann Loades did not inhabit the rather specialised worlds of practical theologians or Christian educationalists, her work has much to contribute to both.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-30DOI: 10.1080/1474225x.2023.2215599
Chris Marooney
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsChris MarooneyChris Marooney currently leads a team of software developers for a major UK national laboratory. Since gaining a Ph.D. in theoretical solid state physics, he has mostly worked in computational fluid dynamics, with occasional digressions into risk analysis and being a Jesuit novice. He has served as an Ignatian spiritual director and parish catechist, and devised lecture series in science, philosophy and religion. He has particular interests in complexity theory and the science and philosophy of consciousness.
点击增加图片大小点击减少图片大小附加信息关于贡献者的说明chris Marooney chris Marooney目前领导着一个英国主要国家实验室的软件开发团队。自从获得理论固体物理学博士学位以来，他主要从事计算流体动力学方面的工作，偶尔也会涉足风险分析，并成为一名耶稣会新手。他曾担任依纳爵精神导师和教区教理讲师，并设计了科学，哲学和宗教系列讲座。他对复杂性理论、意识科学和哲学特别感兴趣。
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Pub Date : 2023-05-24DOI: 10.1080/1474225X.2023.2215596
Yulia Vintoniv
ABSTRACT The article offers a phenomenological study of the interpenetrating experiences of suffering and Godforsakenness from the perspective of ‘the scourge of God’, based on the works of Albert Camus. The study reveals the complexity and ambiguity of this experience and its transcendental significance as being ‘without God’, and invites eschatological and soteriological discussions. However, special attention is focused on understanding the suffering of humanity which manifests the quintessential experience of Godforsakenness. Suffering becomes a space of total vulnerability, not only before God but also before the neighbour and the Church. The experience of Godforsakenness also becomes a tool of apophatic theology and a sign of the reconciliation of suffering and God's love. In addition, the experience of Godforsakenness in suffering may produce original gifts: hope, solidarity, and faith as “confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see” (Hebrew 11, 1).
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/1474225X.2023.2211313
Karin M. Johannesson
ABSTRACT The authority of the bishop is not easy to define outside the three key concepts of teacher (mystagogue), prior or prioress of the ordained clergy, and democracy in which the bishop is the ‘leader of the choir’. In Uppsala there is a sense of a folk church in which all ministry is collaborative and the bishop’s authority is rooted in a practical ‘powerlessness’. The bishop is a teacher through regular parish visitations and operates alongside an elected General Synod of which she is not herself a member. As a teacher the bishop is a theologian with a future orientated teaching in the body of the Church.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/1474225x.2023.2211316
D. Chillingworth
ABSTRACT Synodality has taken many forms in terms of both representation and authority. In Anglicanism it is usually a meeting of clergy, laity and bishops. Synods either pass bills or make Canons, defining its position on particular issues. Often a slow process, it speaks with authority for the whole church. In this paper, as a bishop and primus, in Scotland I describe my own experience of synodality in the context of the diverse history of synodality in the wider church.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/1474225X.2023.2184041
Jeremy Morris
ABSTRACT This article is an observer’s reflection on the Lambeth Conference of bishops of the Anglican Communion held in summer 2022. It describes the physical conditions under which the conference met, the role played by the Archbishop of Canterbury in convening and overseeing the Conference, and the evolution of the Conference’s processes. It concludes with a series of short reflections on the implications of the Conference, and particularly its handling of differences over same-sex relationships, for the polity and future of the Anglican Communion.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/1474225X.2023.2194530
Lucas Tse
ABSTRACT This article, which was originally a contribution to the 2022 Scott Holland Symposium in Durham, explores two passages to China in the context of R.H. Tawney’s life and legacy. It contextualises Tawney’s observations during these visits in relation to his increasing concern with macro-historical questions on the global scale throughout the 1920s. Tawney was especially sceptical of a single standard of progress, and of teleological history, but he did not reject the need for progress and became an advocate for social policy in a distant land. His encounters in China allowed him to develop comparative approaches to civilisational structures, even though he remained more attached to granular empiricism than his contemporaries such as Troeltsch and Toynbee. The interest Tawney took in China offers a basis to explore his legacy as a global historian.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/1474225x.2023.2211315
Thabo Makgoba
ABSTRACT In succession to the apostles, the bishop is a guardian and a keeper and one who cares for spiritual concerns. In continuity with the past the bishop directs God’s people to the future with an authority that is not personal, in witness to the public faith and a sign of unity.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/1474225x.2023.2211309
D. Jasper, D. Inman
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