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Nexus: Conversations on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition

Nexus: Conversations on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition

Nexus: Conversations on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition is a digital-age journal that amplifies and publishes scholarly dialogue taking place in the Hank Center. Our second issue, titled Robots and Rituals: Reflections on Faith in the Era of Science and AI, was recently featured in America Magazine. The issue transports us into the exciting and complicated present where faith, science, digital culture, and AI collide. Read on and let us know what you think!

Volume 2: 

1. Integrating the Inquirer: A Jesuit Approach to Interdisciplinarity by Adam D. Hincks, S.J. 

2. The Science Beneath Belief: An Interview with David DeSteno

3. Arguing for Good Faith by Michael Burns

4. Thy Power Throughout the Universe Displayed by Pamela L. Gay

5. Intelligence? Understanding? Wisdom? by Br. Guy Consolmagno, S.J.

6. Appleseeds to Apples: Catholicism and the Next ChatGPT: An Interview with Blake Lemoine

7. Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, and the Catholic View of Human Nature by Joseph Vukov

8. Social Robots in Elderly Care by Hille Haker

9. Apocalypse Now? Yes, Please: Notes on Navigating the Digital Revolution by Michael P. Murphy

10. Ad Astra Per Libros: Further Reading on Science Fiction and Faith by Susan Haarman

Read Volume 2

 

Past Issues

Volume 1

 

Future Issues

1. Restorative Justice and the Abolition of the Death Penalty 

2. Media and Messages: Catholicism and Digital Media

3. Catholic Imaginations and The Future of the Catholic Literary Tradition 

4. Science, Religion, and the Technocratic Paradigm: Catholic Genealogies; Catholic Critiques