Tag: CSJ2025Summer

AI: Threats or Opportunities for the Church?

Is AI a threat to be feared, a tool to be leveraged, or both? How do we embrace its potential for the great commission without compromising the integrity of our message or the essence of our humanity?

James Hwang • August 18, 2025 • Scholarship En • 简 • 繁 •

A human hand and a robotic hand reach toward each other, nearly touching, illuminated by a glowing light between them against a dark, digital background—symbolizing the theological tension between creation, imitation, and divine image.

The Digitalized Image of God and Corrupted Human Nature

How may the perverted order of humanity mirrored in AI be rectified and restored? It is at this point that we are motivated to explore how God’s grace can enable us to perform the image of God with our ectype, that is, AI.

Ximian Simeon Xu • • Scholarship En • 简 • 繁 •

Would Aquinas and Zhu Xi Embrace AI?

These eminent thinkers represent and have shaped two major traditions—Christianity and Confucianism. Hence, their wisdom may offer valuable guidance for Christians living and serving in a Confucian cultural context.

Leonard Sidharta • • Scholarship En • 简 • 繁 •

Digital tree of life conceptual tech artwork for science growth and innovation visuals. AI will not replace humans in tasks that demand creativity, generalizability, and abstraction. In most scenarios, AI will serve as an enabling tool to assist humans in decision-making.

Green Learning and the Christian Response to AI

AI will not replace humans in tasks that demand creativity, generalizability, and abstraction. In most scenarios, AI will serve as an enabling tool to assist humans in decision-making.

C.-C. Jay Kuo • • Scholarship En • 简 • 繁 •

A glowing globe on a desk with a map of the world on the computer.

Empowering the Church with Code

My encouragement in this AI era is to empower the coworkers, the Christians, the young Christians, and say it's okay for them to try things out, even if it's not conventional.

James Hwang, Wei-Jing Zhu • • Scholarship En • 简 • 繁 •

A family looking at the many options the world offers, including the cross. This is the mandate for AI. We must test its capabilities, hold fast to the applications that genuinely advance the gospel, and abstain from any use that compromises truth or harms people.

Great Commission to Chinese and All Nations—How Can AI Help?

This is the mandate for AI. We must test its capabilities, hold fast to the applications that genuinely advance the gospel, and abstain from any use that compromises truth or harms people.

James Hwang • • Scholarship

Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. Digital illustration of the first temptation and fall of man. 2084 and the AI Revolution is not simply a book about the dangers of technology, but a profound exploration of what it means to be human in a world that increasingly seeks to forget.

A Guide to Hope and Wisdom in the Age of AI

2084 and the AI Revolution is not simply a book about the dangers of technology, but a profound exploration of what it means to be human in a world that increasingly seeks to forget.

James Hwang • • Scholarship En • 简 • 繁 •

Good AI vs. Bad AI. Two AI robots staring at each other.

AI—Amplifying Virtues and Vices

This new ChinaSource Journal issue focusing on AI comes at an important time, where the practical benefits of AI are being weighed against important ethical and theological issues that come with every new technology.

ChinaSource Team • • Scholarship En • 简 • 繁 •