Trinitarian Education in the Digital Age
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https://doi.org/10.19166/dil.v8i3.11256Keywords:
Artificial Intelligence, Trivium, Education, Trinity, Trinitarian, Logic, Dialectic, Rhetoric, Grammar, Memory, Saint Augustine of Hippo, Augustinian, imago deiAbstract
With the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) that has greatly affected modern thought and education, this paper examines Trinitarian theology through the Augustinian framework of memory, understanding, and love, connecting it to the medieval Trivium: Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric, and to the Trinity: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. It contends, through logical arguments that connect the findings of several Christian authors to each other and to modern technology in novel ways, that an educational model grounded in the Trinity promotes human flourishing. While expressing concern that improper design and use of technology can rob us of our humanity if we let it do too much of the hard work for us, this paper concludes that the Trivium can serve as a tool to navigate learning alongside AI, while being cautious to preserve our unique human faculties, especially love (agape), rooted in the imago Dei.
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