Sacramental Engines: The Trinitarian Ontology of Computers in Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine

Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine can be recollected as a fossilized image of the first digital computer. It is essentially distinguished from all prior and analog computers by transcription ‘mechanical notation’, separation mnemonic ‘store’ cybernetic ‘mill’, infinite miniaturization its component parts. This substitution finite space for an accelerating singularity time creates essential rupture digital, in which singular calculation mechanical force stands opposed to universal totality space. criticism Christian doctrine preserve mathematical consistency mechanics computing would result collapse Trinity into theology. Arian subordinate difference Son Father then infinitely transcribed technical contradiction that threaten annul metaphysical ground any machine. Against postdigital theologies alike, this only repaired dialectical analysis hyperdigital grammar, created Christ Logos trinitarian ontology computers. Digital thus vindicated theological suspicion incarnationally accelerated calculators sacraments, or ‘sacramental engines’ age.