Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Christian Theology, Extraterrestrial Intelligence and a Hypothesis of Multiple Incarnations

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2019 12 (6)
Authors
Nesteruk, Alexei V.; Soldatov, Alexander V.
Contact information
Nesteruk, Alexei V.: University of Portsmouth Lion Gate Building, Portsmouth, PO1 3HF, UK; ; Soldatov, Alexander V.: The Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia 48 Moyka Embankment, St. Petersburg, 191186, Russia
Keywords
anthropology; astrotheology; creation; deification; exoplanets; fall; humanity; incarnation; intelligence; redemption
Abstract

This paper addresses the recently renewed discussions of the possibility of multiple species-specific incarnations of God in the societies of extraterrestrial beings (if they exist) on exoplanets. It gives a scientific, philosophical and theological assessment of some of its claims, arguing that the problem of extraterrestrial intelligence contributes to the hermeneutics of the human condition on Earth. The authors formulate their negative position on the hypothesis of multiple incarnations in the context of modern cosmology and Orthodox theology

Pages
1048–1071
DOI
10.17516/1997–1370–0440
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/110434

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