Dr Noreen Herzfeld

Nicholas and Bernice Reuter Professor of Science and Religion
St. John's University & The College of St. Benedict

Collegeville, Minnesota, United States

Biography

Noreen Herzfeld is the Nicholas and Bernice Reuter Professor of Science and Religion at St. John’s University, and the College of St. Benedict.  She holds degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from The Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. in Theology from The Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley.  Herzfeld is the author of In Our Image:  Artificial Intelligence and the Human Spirit (2002), Technology and Religion:  Remaining Human in a Co-Created World  (2009), and The Limits of Perfection in Technology, Religion, and Science(2010).  She has also published numerous articles on such diverse topics as cyberspace as a venue for spiritual experience, embodiment as a sine qua non for personhood, the religious implications of computer games, and the prospects for reconciliation among Christians and Muslims in Bosnia.  Her current research examines how we use various technologies to outsource memory and how these technologies change, not only how we remember, but also what we remember.

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Major Prizes

Religion, Philosophy & History Interests

Christianity-Protestantism, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Theology

Science & Technology Interests

Information Technology

Publications

In Our Image: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Spirit,

Fortress Press 2002
www.augsburgfortress.org/store/item.jsp?clsid=112991&productgroupid=0&isbn=0800634764

Technology and Religion: Remaining Human in a Co-Created World

Templeton Press 2009
https://www.templetonpress.org/author/noreen-herzfeld