Dr. Ximian Simeon Xu (徐西面), originally from Wenzhou, China, is an Assistant Research Professor in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge and founding Co-Director of the Cambridge Centre for Chinese Theology, alongside Professor David Fergusson. His research focuses on Christian theology, Chinese theology, Dutch Neo-Calvinism, and the intersection of theology and technology, particularly artificial intelligence and ethics.
Dr. Xu is the author of *Theology as the Science of God* (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022), *The Digitalised Image of God: Artificial Intelligence, Liturgy, and Ethics* (Routledge, 2024), and *The Imago Dei: A Holistic Account* (Cambridge University Press, 2026).
He is also co-editing the forthcoming *T&T Clark Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, Religion, and Ethics* with Professor George Coghill for Bloomsbury T&T Clark. In addition to his books and editorial projects, Dr. Xu has published peer-reviewed articles in academic journals.
How may the perverted order of humanity mirrored in AI be rectified and restored? It is at this point that we are motivated to explore how God’s grace can enable us to perform the image of God with our ectype, that is, AI.