Editorial Introduction

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) in recent years has intensified long-standing questions about the nature of intelligence, personhood, and the theological distinctiveness of human beings. As machines perform tasks once thought exclusive to human minds, increasing attention is paid to those aspects and modes of human intelligence that still elude automation. Spiritual intelligence is one such<br/>example. Understood as a mode of knowing that is intuitive, embodied, relational, and oriented toward the transcendent, it offers a compelling counterpoint to the calculative logic of machines. This special issue of Christian Perspectives on Science and Technology (CPOSAT) invites readers into a cross-disciplinary conversation exploring how the notions of artificial and spiritual intelligence both challenge and illuminate Christian thought.