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Start Date
16-9-2025 2:15 PM
End Date
16-9-2025 3:00 PM
Keywords
sermon, chatgpt, preaching, feedback, hearers, havilland, alliteration, memorability
Description
Artificial intelligence (AI) is now mainstream. It presents a spectrum of options for preachers. On one extreme, preachers could refuse to use AI in any capacity. On the other hand, preachers could use AI to construct sermons. How should preachers think about these issues? What theological and confessional wisdom is available to guide their thinking? How do we wisely discern appropriate uses of AI? This presentation will propose Scriptural and confessional frameworks to promote wise thinking about the preaching task in an age of AI. It will give special attention to the personhood and embodiment of preachers. Participants will discuss opportunities and limitations for the uses of AI in preaching as well as learn potential options for using AI in sermon preparation.
Submission Type
Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep
Submission Audience
Laity; Ministers; Scholars
Submission Cost
Free
Intelligent Preaching or Artificial Preaching: A Beginning Conversation about Artificial Intelligence and Sermon Construction
Artificial intelligence (AI) is now mainstream. It presents a spectrum of options for preachers. On one extreme, preachers could refuse to use AI in any capacity. On the other hand, preachers could use AI to construct sermons. How should preachers think about these issues? What theological and confessional wisdom is available to guide their thinking? How do we wisely discern appropriate uses of AI? This presentation will propose Scriptural and confessional frameworks to promote wise thinking about the preaching task in an age of AI. It will give special attention to the personhood and embodiment of preachers. Participants will discuss opportunities and limitations for the uses of AI in preaching as well as learn potential options for using AI in sermon preparation.
