R. Anthony Buck

R. Anthony Buck holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Theology from the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of the interdisciplinary project, Contesting Computer Anthropologies: The Human in the Digital Age, at the Centre of Faith and Society of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Fribourg, where the project seeks to critically engage with the questions of what it means to be human and what is the nature of artificial intelligence and/or life.

 

Dr Buck is also a Mesa Scholar producing rigorous academic research, providing theological education where it desperately needed, especially in the Global South, and expanding the opportunities and capabilities of theological scholars and institutions from the Global South. 

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His groundbreaking interdisciplinary research integrates cognitive science, sociological theory and analysis, philosophical thought, and narrative and liberation theologies. Utilising an interdisciplinary approach, his DPhil research develops a narrative and phronetic approach to theological epistemology and activity, while his next monograph is constructing a rigorously Trinitarian doctrine of predestination and salvation that also addresses artificial intelligence and empowers human agency.

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He has also contributed articles covering cutting-edge themes and events in religion and society, especially including AI ethics, for the European Academy on Religion and Society.