From Consumption to Communion
The Grail Question, Moloch, Artificial Intelligence, and the Eucharistic Constitution of Technological CivilizationBy Dr. Bichara Sahely
Length6h 26m
About this audiobook
Artificial intelligence is not only a question of capability. It is a question of service: what our technologies protect, what they consume, whose capacities they enlarge, and whom they ultimately serve. Beginning with Jonathan Pageau’s symbols of the Grail, the lance, the wounded king, and Moloch, Dr. Bichara Sahely develops a life-coherent account of technological civilization. The work contrasts predatory consumption with Eucharistic communion, examines the enclosure of human capacity, and proposes a Eucharistic constitution of technology grounded in agency, truth, justice, ecological reciprocity, accountable limits, repair, and the civil commons. The central question beneath the machine is the question beneath civilization: Whom do we serve?
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GenreTechnology, Spirituality and Religion
Length6 hrs 26 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 28, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1From Consumption to Communion
2Opening Note to the Listener
3Listener’s Orientation
4The Argument in Brief
5Pronunciation Guide
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6Chapter 1. Introduction: The Question Beneath the Machine
7Chapter 2. From Consumption to Communion Revisited: The Two Civilizational Metabolisms
8Chapter 3. Symbol, Participation, and the Recovery of the Centre
9Chapter 4. The Grail and the Lance: The Two Powers of Technology
10Chapter 5. Moloch, Mammon, and the Emergent Agency of Systems
11Chapter 6. Artificial Intelligence and the Enclosure of Human Capacity
12Chapter 7. The Eucharist as the Anti-Moloch Pattern
13Chapter 8. Becoming Fully Human in a Technological Age
14Chapter 9. Why Personal Formation Is Necessary but Insufficient
15Chapter 10. Toward a Eucharistic Constitution of Technological Civilization
16Chapter 11. The Civil Commons as Eucharistic Institutional Form
17Chapter 12. The Church as First Sign and First Subject of Judgment
18Chapter 13. Conclusion: Whom Do We Serve?
19Final Listener’s Guide
20Note on the Academic Edition
21Artificial-Intelligence Transparency Note
22About the Author
23Closing Reflection
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