Scientia et Fides

Editors:  Jacek Rodzeń and Paweł Polak       

Recent decades have witnessed the rapid development of emerging technologies (e.g., artificial intelligence, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and robotics), which have profoundly reshaped our understanding of the world, society, and the human person. While these transformations inspire both hope and concern, they also risk obscuring awareness of the divine presence in the dynamic relationships between human beings, the world, and technology.

            This Special Issue explores the human–technology relationship as a locus of God’s action. Rather than viewing technology as a neutral or purely secular domain, we invite contributions that interpret it as a mediating space in which divine (Trinitarian) relations – creation, redemption, and sanctification – are enacted in the development and use of emerging technologies. The aim is to move beyond a narrowly defined focus on spirituality, liturgy, or ecclesial life in Christian theology and to engage more fully with the sphere of “earthly realities,” including technology. We also encourage methodological reflections on the possibility of building new bridges between philosophy, science, technology, and Christian theology.

            We invite philosophers and theologians from diverse Christian traditions – especially those with interdisciplinary expertise in science or engineering – to contribute to the Special Issue, “The Human–Technology Relationship as a Locus of God’s Action.”

• designing, testing, and using new technologies as forms of participation in God’s creative activity;
• the creative and redemptive role of the Logos–Christ in technological creativity;
• technologies that serve reconciliation, healing, and stewardship as anticipations of eschatological renewal;
• the inspiring and sanctifying role of the Holy Spirit in the development and responsible use of new technologies;
• the work of engineers and technicians as a divine vocation within the economy of salvation;
• the possibility and conditions for developing a Christian theology of technology;
• a Christian (Trinitarian) theology of technology as a response to technological gnosticism and anti-technological neo-romanticism.

Deadline for submission: 31 December, 2026.

Articles must be written in English and meet the conditions described here: https://apcz.umk.pl/SetF/about/submissions

Please submit articles via:  https://apcz.umk.pl/SetF/login

Regarding submission, you can contact our guest editors:

1. Jacek Rodzeń, Associate Professor, Department of 19th-Century History, Faculty of Humanities, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland.
   Email: jacek.rodzen@ujk.edu.pl

1. Paweł Polak, Professor of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków, Poland.
   Email: pawel.polak@upjp2.edu.pl