This study examines artificial intelligence through the lens of religious affections in the Reformed tradition. Engaging affect theory, affective computing, and social robotics, it argues that attempts to simulate emotion and relationality in AI expose deep human desires for transcendence, control, and relief from vulnerability. Drawing on imago Dei, covenantal ontology, and Puritan accounts of the heart, the article contends that true dignity and flourishing arise not from enhanced intelligence but from affective participation in God's life through Christ. It concludes by locating relational flourishing in the embodied, worshipping community of the church.
Hyeong Rae Jo (Thu,) studied this question.