title: Theology after contact: religion and extraterrestrial intelligent life.
abstract: The prospect of encountering extraterrestrial intelligent life raises important questions for religion and theology. Even if an actual encounter with extraterrestrials never actually takes place, or proves impractical, terrestrial religious thought already has resources that can render intelligible and allow us theologically to appreciate such an eventuality.
authors.affiliation: Department of Theology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA. haughtj@georgetown.edu
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Haught
mesh_terms: D018559:Exobiology; D005118:Extraterrestrial Environment; D006801:Humans; D019369:Life; D028725:Theology