THE STATUS OF THE CHRISTIAN – RIGHTS, FREEDOMS, RESPONSIBILITIES – IN AN INFORMATIONAL AND DIGITIZED WORLD. A MISSIONARY PERSPECTIVE
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6559284Keywords:
rights, freedoms, responsibilities, human rights, information society, digitalization, scientism, technological progress, biotechnologies, artificial intelligenceAbstract
The relationship between the rights and freedoms, on the one hand, and the responsibilities, on the other hand, for the contemporary Christian, is a completely unbalanced one in favor of the rights and freedoms.
The challenges for today’s Christian in the field of “human rights” reveal the danger of man’s autonomy from God and the Church. The contemporary society is becoming informational and digitized/digitalized, as technology increasingly defines and controls the life of the contemporary Christian. The challenge for the contemporary Christian coming from the sphere of the informational and digitized society lies in the danger of his/her depersonalization and the emergence of scientific ideologies that can influence and divert the Christian from his free and personal relationship with God.
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