EA - New encyclopedia entry on utilitarianism and Christian theology by dominicroser

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: New encyclopedia entry on utilitarianism and Christian theology, published by dominicroser on August 24, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Theologians have often been very critical about utilitarianism - despite the fact that the first versions of utilitarianism have been developed by Christian thinkers.Vesa Hautala and I now got the opportunity to write an encyclopedia article on Christian Theology and Utilitarianism for the St Andrews Encyclopedia of Theology (SAET). SAET is a new project - a theological analogue of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.This is the first such overview as far as we know. It touches on both historical developments as well as points of overlap and tension. If anyone has criticism to offer of our treatment, we'd happily take it.Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org