Hacker News with Generative AI: Theology

Why Brazil fell for Pentecostalism but not liberation theology (aeon.co)
In 1962, the Colombian priest and sociology professor Camilo Torres Restrepo travelled to the north of the country to investigate a dispute between powerful landlords and subsistence farmers.
Religion, Brazil, Sociology, Theology
5 points by rbanffy 30 days ago | 0 comments
Seeing Hell through the Reason and Imagination of C. S. Lewis (discovery.org)
As a semi-retired pastor, having preached on Hell from time to time, I distrust any preacher or writer who seems to enjoy giving his people a steady diet of brimstone. C. S. Lewis reluctantly addressed the subject in his writings. In The Problem of Pain he admitted that there is no Christian doctrine that he’d rather remove more than the doctrine of Hell.
Religion, C.S. Lewis, Theology, Hell
14 points by Michelangelo11 54 days ago | 7 comments
The ambiguous witness of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2014) (newcriterion.com)
The matter of the legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer is at once straightforward and immensely complicated.
Theology, History, Biography
72 points by Pamar 80 days ago | 41 comments
Medieval theology has an old take on a new problem − AI responsibility (theconversation.com)
A self-driving taxi has no passengers, so it parks itself in a lot to reduce congestion and air pollution. After being hailed, the taxi heads out to pick up its passenger – and tragically strikes a pedestrian in a crosswalk on its way.
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Theology, Technology
5 points by cratermoon 163 days ago | 1 comments