Abstract
The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has introduced new possibilities for the mediation of religious practices within contemporary Christianity. This study explores the potential of Artificial Intelligence in Christian religious activities, with particular attention to its pragmatic benefits and theological implications. Grounded in Campbell’s Digital Religion Theory (2013,2021) and informed by linguistic pragmatics. The study conceptualizes AI as a digital and linguistic medium through which religious communication and meaning-making are increasingly negotiated. Adopting a conceptual and theoretical research approach, the study examines existing scholarship on digital religion, AI, and Christian religious communication to analyze how AI’s language-processing capacities may support activities such as sermon preparation, teaching, prayer discourse, and digital evangelism. From a pragmatic perspective, these activities are understood as context-sensitive communicative acts involving instruction, exhortation, and persuasion. The study argues that AI’s ability to generate and organize religious discourse offers significant communicative advantages, particularly in enhancing clarity, coherence, and accessibility of Christian messages. At the same time, it critically engages with the theological implications of AI-mediated religious practices, including concerns related to spiritual authority, authenticity, human agency, and divine inspiration. The study concludes that Artificial Intelligence, when responsibly integrated, holds considerable linguistic and pragmatic potential for Christian religious activities while requiring sustained theological reflection.
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Language, Potential, Religion Activities
DOI: 10.36349/alqajolls.2025.v01i01.023
author/Omotayi, A.O., Dairo, N.A. & Ostbowale, A.V.
journal/AL-QALAM JLLS 1(1) | December 2025
