Michal Valco
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Research vision
My scholarly work sits at the intersection of church history, philosophical theology, and religious anthropology. For more than two decades I have asked how Christian thought — particularly in its Lutheran and Reformed expressions — engages the deepest question of what it means to be human.
That question has led me from the Reformation heritage of Central Europe to the philosophy of Kierkegaard, and on to contemporary debates about transhumanism and artificial intelligence. My research is comparative and historically grounded: it takes seriously both the intellectual tradition and the living communities — ecclesial, immigrant, academic — in which that tradition is tested and transmitted.
Fields
Reformation theologyTheological anthropologyTranshumanism and AI ethicsKierkegaardSlovak Protestant thought
Selected publications
- Transhumanism as a Challenge for the Christian Theological Understanding of Imago Dei — LIT Verlag, Zürich, 2021
- Samuel Štefan Osuský: a theological-prophetic critique of war and totalitarianism — Bogoslovni vestnik, 2019
- Faith as a pillar of resilience in Slovak immigrant communities in Canada (with K. Valčová) — Slavica Slovaca, 2023
Current projects
- Transhumanism and the Christian understanding of imago Dei — in collaboration with the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Theology, Oxford (John Templeton Foundation)
- Faith, resilience, and cultural cohesion in Slovak immigrant communities — archival fieldwork in Canada with Central and East European comparisons
- The contemporary relevance of John Locke's thought on human rights — with the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (NAFOSTED, Hanoi)
At a glance
184outputs
38WoS / Scopus
510citations
53invited talks