Christian Perspectives on Transhumanism and the Church: Chips in the Brain, Immortality, and the World of Tomorrow

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Cham: Springer Verlag (2018)
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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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Nietzsche’s Power Ontology and Transhumanism: Or Why Christians Cannot Be Transhumanists.Jeffrey P. Bishop
Epilogue: People of Vision, Communities of Discernment.Ron Cole-Turner
Introduction: Why the Church Should Pay Attention to Transhumanism.Ron Cole-Turner
The Imago Dei and the Imago Mundi.Michael Dickson
Do Bigger Brains Mean Smaller Gods? Cognitive Science and Theological Perspectives on Transhumanism and the Church.Steve Donaldson
Epilogue: The Church—Bigger Bangs Are Coming.Steve Donaldson
Will the Transhuman Future Be Good or Bad for Humanity?George Michael Glawson
Even Cyborgs Cast a Shadow: Christian Resources and Responsibilities in Response to Transhumanism.Fred Glennon
Christianity’s Rigged Debate with Transhumanism.Boaz Goss
Dragons and Dog-Headed Saints: Some Medieval Perspectives on the Significance of the Human Form.Allison Hepola
Rivalry, Control, and Transhumanist Desire.Ysabel Johnston
From Lamech to Bezalel: Biblical Reflections on the Polyvalence of “Technology”.Steven J. Kraftchick
The Failed Fictions of Transhumanism.Christina Bieber Lake
Origin Stories: Superheroes, Cyborgs, Artificial Intelligences.Jeanine Thweatt
When That Which Is Perfect Is Come”: Henry Drummond and “The Changed Life.Carol Ann Vaughn Cross

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