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The prevalence of algorithms in the daily lives of a significant portion of humanity, coupled with the ongoing rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI), inevitably prompts questions regarding educational processes, teaching paradigms, and theological education. The paper starts by examining current technologies for education, with a specific emphasis on the project framework and regulations presently in effect in Italy. It then extrapolates, drawing upon analogy and the transference of learning models, to theological education and the epistemological and ethical challenges presented by the capabilities of AI applications. The research’s scope is defined by the distinctiveness of the regulatory framework and scientific experiments conducted within the Italian context. The contribution is supplemented by a chapter entirely authored by an algorithm, and in conclusion, offers a perspective on the ontology of forms of intelligence. This perspective recognizes «sensitive thought» as the anthropological characteristic that distinguishes humans from machines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper suggests two ways in which medieval thought can provide us with some interesting elements for discussing the problems of the current technological and digital revolution. The first is the fact that medieval Christian thought from the XIIth century did not despise technological innovations of the time as philosophically invaluable: from Hugues of Saint Victor onwards, we find some interesting philosophical reflections on the nature, scope and significance of technological development for mankind. The second is rooted in the general attitude of metaphysical optimism that was typical of the Latin Middle Ages and which was reflected above all in the idea of the supreme dignity of man and his central place in creation. Starting from the patristic tradition, from Johannes Scottus Eriugena to Robert Grosseteste and beyond, medieval thought established that the human microcosmus is the center of all creation and that all natural things are oriented towards it as their ultimate goal. Two conclusions can be drawn from these historical facts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents some main pastoral activities implemented by the Church of England, in order to meet the challenges of urban evangelization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents a deep insight into the present situation of Orthodoxy in Europe, identifying difficulties and resources in order to meet the challenges of a new evangelization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Covid-19 disease deeply changed our daily life, due to a strong rebound on our relationships and on our emotional part of personality. In this writing the psychological question is not discussed from the pathology's perspective but from the perspective of the normal mental faculties. In this paper according to the categories of time, space and relationship, as described by the psychoanalytic theory of mind, there is the effort to analyze if the contemporary malaise could be described as a physiologic reaction or as a severe mental disease. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essay exposes some of the most important features of the transformations occurred in school (according to SAMR model by R. Puentedura) and work due to the spread of digital teaching and smart working practices. The second part of the paper is dedicated to the ethical and psychological reflection on the algorithmization of existence (according to E. Sadin and M. Benasayg), the transformation of human beings in «performance subjects» who live in the «Burnout Society» (B.-Ch. Han), and then the challenge of emancipation in the political field through digital technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper proposes an analyses of the experience of the celebration of the sacrament of the penitence with the general absolution - the third form of the present Ritual (Ordo Paenitentiae, 1973) - thanks to a research on the field held in the archidiocese of Turin (Italy). This analyses is preceded by a brief historical overview which explains why the third form is quite exceptional; and it is followed by some remarks which suggest the pastoral opportunity to propose in an ordinary and regulate way the third form of the penitence in synergy with the first form - individual confession -, so taking into serious consideration the positivity of the recent experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At this point in time, neurosciences are dealing with some of the problems that also pertain to philosophical and theological anthropology. This paper highlights two crucial topics where the overlap among disciplines is solid enough to allow for a comparative approach, and focuses in particular on those that cause a rethinking of human freedom. The role of emotions in moral judgment and the implicit processes that generate our stories become an opportunity to restore depth to the experience of freedom, which must be accompanied by rigorous attention to its unconscious side. Human flourishing, but also the shape of our communities, depend on this. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to deal with the theological problem of suffering induced by biological dynamics, in particular with the fact that it seems to question the existence of a loving Creator. After a brief presentation of some ancient and modern solutions to this problem, it will be claimed the need to overcome a metaphysics of causality, and it will be proposed a sketch of a specific process theological interpretation of reality, which could represent an adequate response to the problem at stake. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper inquires the deep reasons of the dialogue between theology and natural sciences. At present theology cannot limit itself to avoiding the clash with scientific theories or to apologetically use scientific knowledge to confirm its arguments. The natural sciences - if we take the language of Melchior Cano - are one of the loci theologici; the theologian has the duty to appeal to the results of science, as John Paul II wrote on p. Coyne. The profound reason for this duty is identified in the impossibility of a divergence between faith and reason: both the light of faith and that of reason that investigates reality in a scientific way are from God and the truth cannot contradict the truth (cf. Vatican I, Dei Filius). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]