New Theoloogy
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Tweak to explore: "New Theology", often written as a single word "Newtheology" or more rarely "Nootheology" by those wishing to shift emphasis or focus on continuum with past traditions. New Theologists frame their belief as one "founded in a dynamic continuum" that "acknowledges the universality of the divine while not assuming a static manifestation".
New Theology began to appear in the mid-21st century among different religious groups and is generally recognized as a phenomenon that that cuts across the different major sects. Specifically, similar ideas, retrospectively grouped under the New Theology banner, began to appear in Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu and Buddhist.[notes 1]
Though the term was retrospectively applied to a minority movement, the first positively known use of the term with it's present meaning was used by M... in 20?? to address questions of the emerging "reality engine" technology....
"Reality Engine" : in the near future, quantum computing is used to create Descartean realities in which simulations regarding the past are played out amongst quantum personality constructs. The general recognition in law of construct person hood in 20?? had been preceded by titanic religious debate regarding the morality of running such simulations. Of the engaged public (std. polling parameters), the two largest pluralities of opinion cluster around some version of "rational agnosticism" that basically says, "it may be that one position is inherently better, but I don't know what it is", which promoted a rational deferral to the consensus. The second group saw the engines as a divine tool to effectively resurrect the departed. A significant third group views the entire thing as blasphemous.
Actually, might make more sense to have the blasphemous group be the majority. The societal majority, however, is tilted by the secularists, atheists, and independents who see the limit of the question to extend to it's utility. Their understanding is not monolithic either. The Utilitarians point to the existence of utilitarian positive technologies against the expected "0 sum game" which speaks of a divine force that bends the universe in a "positive" direction. On the other end of the spectrum, Agnostics tend to hold that the question of what we're supposed to do is a meaningless question. It's useful for us to do, and that's all we can know so it's by definition all we can base our judgment on.
Notes
- ↑ To some extent, the various religions claim some continuum with the past. Across subsects, the Buddhist are keen to point out that the fundamental precepts that underpin New Theology development were already understood and so deny that any special "development" took place among their faithful. On the other side, the Christian grouping on the whole tends to denote the development of New Theology as a break with the past. Supporters see it variously as a revelation and/or fulfillment while detractors label it a heresy. However, there is broad consensus that New Theology represents an "episodic break". Judaism and Islam both largely view the event as a definable shift as well.
