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14 | www.limina-graz.eu LIMINA 3:2 | Digital Transformation | Editorial Especially from a theological perspective, any such investigation needs to reach far beyond (socio-)ethic, technological, or political contexts: it is necessary to broaden the scope and problematise additional dimensions. ̟ What does it mean for something to “exist” as digital content? ̟ What constitutes the existential boundary between empirical and digital reality? ̟ Can digital products be categories of a hierarchy of being? If yes, what and how? Other questions relate to the concept of personhood: ̟ Can digital products represent a person? ̟ Are there scenarios in which digital entities could be considered “persons”? ̟ Are traditional philosophical and theological determinants of per- sonhood such as reason, dignity, responsibility, truth, culpability, creaturehood, etc. even still valid? A further dimension is that of eschatology. ̟ Christian theology firmly puts the perfection of humankind and the world in God’s hands. Now, digitisation and technology offer (the- oretically, so far) new possibilities in the pursuit of self-perfection, immortality and salvation as suggested by posthumanism and the idea of “mind-uploading”, for example. How can such visions be approached from a theological standpoint? ̟ Would such a future create a new form of elite, possibly in contrast to a newly emerging massa damnata whose lack of resources and knowledge precludes them from ascending to paradise? The contributions in this issue tackle these questions and illuminate them from different perspectives. We currently experience a period of accelerated societal transformation, further propelled by the events of 2020. This transformation not only ex- poses (a) a remarkable affinity amongst otherwise change-averse circles towards digital means that (at least claim to) make life easier, help protect the environment, save time, etc., but it is also accompanied by (b) an as-