Abstract
Abstract The paper aims at providing some introductory insights in the project of a theological anthropology of the digital age. The objective is to show that theological anthropology can help us gain an original and valid perspective on the technological transformation we have been experiencing during the last few decades. In order to do so, it is not enough to underline the analogy between some sources of the Judeo-Christian tradition and some aspects of the so-called digital culture. Instead, the objective is to show that theology can offer some theoretical instruments able to offer a deeper insight in our condition. The paper starts from the notion of finitude, interpreted as a blessing and not as a “limit” of our nature. Through the distinction between Promethean and Epimethan approaches to technology, the text focuses on three core aspects of human finitude: corporeality, inner life and otherness.
Highlights
Thinking about theological anthropology’s possible contribution to the debate on the human condition in our era, in particular after the so-called “digital turn”,1 is quite a challenge
A theological anthropology of the Digital would be in the first place a philological operation aiming at retracing, behind the secularized façade of our present hypermodern human condition, the theological ground of its origins
If our anthropology of technology starts with the body, this means that digital technologies determine a particular form of our experience of the world, of our capability to sense the environment
Summary
Thinking about theological anthropology’s possible contribution to the debate on the human condition in our era, in particular after the so-called “digital turn”,1 is quite a challenge. Via free access in this paper is somehow more ambitious: We would like to show that theological anthropology, as a theoretical way to understand human condition, can help us gain an original and valid perspective on digital culture.
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