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Christian Perspectives on Transhumanism and the Church Chips in the Brain, Immortality, and the World of Tomorrow
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Christian Perspectives on Transhumanism and the Church [electronic resource] : Chips in the Brain, Immortality, and the World of Tomorrow / edited by Steve Donaldson, Ron Cole-Turner.
ISBN
9783319903231
Publication
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Physical Description
1 online resource (XVI, 271 p).
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Summary
Christians have always been concerned with enhancement—now they are faced with significant questions about how technology can help or harm genuine spiritual transformation. What makes traditional and technological enhancement different from each other? Are there theological insights and spiritual practices that can help Christians face the challenge of living in a technological world without being dangerously conformed to its values? This book calls on Christians to understand and engage the deep issues facing the church in a technological, transhumanist future.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 07, 2018
Series
Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and its Successors
Contents
1. Why the Church Should Pay Attention to Transhumanism
2. From Lamech to Bezalel: Biblical Reflections on the Polyvalence of “Technology”
3. Dragons and Dog-Headed Saints: Some Medieval Perspectives on the Significance of the Human Form
4. “When That Which Is Perfect Is Come”: Henry Drummond and “The Changed Life”
5. Christianity’s Rigged Debate with Transhumanism
6. The Imago Dei and the Imago Mundi
7. Nietzsche’s Power Ontology and Transhumanism: Or Why Christians Cannot Be Transhumanists
8. The Failed Fictions of Transhumanism
9. Do Bigger Brains Mean Smaller Gods? Cognitive Science and Theological Perspectives on Transhumanism and the Church (or, Why We Can’t Outrun Faith)
10. Will the Transhuman Future be Good or Bad for Humanity?
11. Origin Stories: Superheroes, Cyborgs, Artificial Intelligences (and Other Humans and Posthumans)
12. Even Cyborgs Cast a Shadow: Christian Resources and Responsibilities in Response to Transhumanism
13. Rivalry, Control, and Transhumanist Desire
14. The Church: Bigger Bangs are Coming
15. People of Vision, Communities of Discernment. .
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