(DIS)EMBODIED: AI and a Theology of the Body [E-BOOK] [RECEIVE IN YOUR IN-BOX SUMMER 2026]

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How does the rise of AI impact how we understand what it means to be human?

Beginning in 1979, Pope St. John Paul II began a serious of lectures on what would soon come to known as the theology of the body. The Pope, and several authors since, believed that what the Pope unleashed in those lectures would not only impact the way human sexuality was understood in the era after the sexual revolution, but that in the 21st century this theology might explode like a powder keg, shaking the foundations of Western society as we know it.

Since the time of Descartes, the human person has endures a vicious bifurcation. The "thinking" man was evermore divided from the material man. As such, materialist concepts defining what it means to be human grew in popularity, leading to the rise of transhumanist ideas, the pursuit of the so-called singularity, or the notion that the human being could effectively be reduced to a series of complex algorithms, the brain re-coded in the digital sphere.

In many ways, AI represents the consummation of the materialist's project. It's no surprise that the rapid development of AI has caused concern both popularly and among those who are deeply wedded to the industry.

Will it change the way we think about "work"? Most certainly, but it's not the first technology that's done that.

Will AI alter the way we experience human relationships? Clearly, but social media has been doing that for more than two decades already.

If Pope St. John Paul II was right, that the human body is the sacrament of the human being since it is the visible manifestation of the true person who is made in God's image, then the notion that the human being can be "replicated" in artificial intelligence undoubtedly has deep and potentially grave spiritual implications.

Only a few years into the AI revolution, Dr. Judah Lamb brings his expertise on the Theology of the Body to bear on the situation today. How can Christians use AI effectively, without falling prey to the serious problems it presents? Is there a redeemable use of AI for the Christian, or is the technology fundamentally flawed? What dangers might there be down the line, particularly for anti-sacramental ecclesiologies?

These are a few questions that Dr. Lamb attempts to answer in this book. This book is by no means the "last word" on how Christian theology ought to engage the phenomenon of Artificial Intelligence, but it contributes to necessary conversation that faithful Christians can no longer ignore.