Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol 12, No 6 (2019)

Christian Theology, Extraterrestrial Intelligence and a Hypothesis of Multiple Incarnations

Alexei Nesteruk, Alexander Soldatov

Abstract


This paper addresses the recently renewed discussions of the possibility of multiple species-specific incarnations of God in the societies of extraterrestrial beings (if they exist) on exoplanets. It gives a scientific, philosophical and theological assessment of some of its claims, arguing that the problem of extraterrestrial intelligence contributes to the hermeneutics of the human condition on Earth.  The author formulates his own negative position on the hypothesis of multiple incarnations in the context of modern cosmology and Orthodox theology.