Christian Transhumanism and Transhumanist Christianity

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12775/SetF.2024.016

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transhumanism, religious transhumanism, Christian transhumanism, Transhuman Christianity, theology of technology, transcendence, imago Dei, transhumanism and eschatology, creativity, created co-creator

Abstrakt

What might a Christian Transhumanism or, better, a Transhumanist Christianity, look like? Might conscientious Christians today absorb transhumanist zeal and enhancement technology into holy goals of enriching the individual soul and transforming the social fabric? As stewards of human creativity, public theologians and cybertheologians are provided an opportunity by their transhumanist friends to contribute to wider human flourishing and global wellbeing. Yet, realism regarding original sin heightens the challenge to discern what is good while avoiding the pitfalls of messianic hubris.

Biogram autora

Ted Frank Peters - Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley CA, USA

Ted Peters (Ph.D., University of Chicago) teaches systematic theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, USA. He co-edits the journal, Theology and Science, at the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences. He is author  of God--The World's Future (Fortress, 3rd ed., 2015) and co-author of Evolution from Creation to New Creation (Abingdon 2002). Along with two colleagues he is editing a new book, Religious Transhumanism and its Critics (Lexington). He is author of a fiction thriller with a Transhumanist plot, Cyrus Twelve, with Aprocryphile Press. Visit his website: TedsTimelyTake.com

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PETERS, Ted Frank. Christian Transhumanism and Transhumanist Christianity. Scientia et Fides [online]. 25 październik 2024, T. 12, nr 2, s. 65–82. [udostępniono 8.3.2026]. DOI 10.12775/SetF.2024.016.

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