During the COVID lockdown, sensing there was a large amount of excellent theological material on YouTube, I started creating a database of YouTube theology structured around links to theologians from a range of theological and denominational positions and areas of theological expertise which contained about 9,000 videos. I have recently returned to this project and worked out how updating and expanding the database can now be done in a more automated way thanks to AI helping me with areas beyond my expertise such as coding and API calls. I’m hoping this resource will therefore now be regularly updated and new theologians added.
There are now over 25,000 videos in the database connected to over 400 theologians. Most of these are in English (occasionally with other language subtitles so non-English titles are often English-language videos) but a small number in other languages. With a small number of exceptions these are videos of the theologians themselves presenting or being interviewed ie primary materials rather than others presenting or discussing their work.
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