Religion and transhumanism : the unknown future of human enhancement /: the unknown future of human enhancement. (2014)
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- Book
- Title:
- Religion and transhumanism : the unknown future of human enhancement /: the unknown future of human enhancement. (2014)
- Main Title:
- Religion and transhumanism : the unknown future of human enhancement
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Calvin Mercer and Tracy J. Trothen.
- Editors:
- Mercer, Calvin R
Trothen, Tracy J (Tracy Joan), 1963- - Contents:
- Introduction: Making the Unknown KnownCalvin MercerSection 1: Theological Anthropology: What It Means to Be Human1 Transhumanism and the Meaning of LifeAnders Sandberg2 More Human Than the Human? Toward a "Transhumanist" Christian Theological AnthropologyMatthew Zaro Fisher3 Cindi, Six, and Her: Gender, Relationality, and Friendly Artificial IntelligenceJeanine Thweatt-BatesSection 2: Soteriology: Salvation Now and Forever4 "The Relief of Man's Estate": Transhumanism, the Baconian Project, and the Theological Impetus for Material SalvationJoseph Wolyniak5 A Salvation Paradox for Transhumanism: Saving You versus Saving YouPatrick D. Hopkins6 Diagnosing Death in the Transhumanism and Christian TraditionsTodd T. W. Daly7 Cyborg, Sage, and Saint: Transhumanism as Seen from an East Asian Theological SettingHeup Young KimSection 3: Eschatology: For What Do We Hope?8 Becoming God by the Numbers: An Evolutionary Journey toward the DivinePhilip A. Douglas9 The Religion of Technology: Transhumanism and the Myth of ProgressMichael S. Burdett10 Extreme Longevity: Insights from the Three Chinese Spiritual TraditionsGeoffrey Redmond11 Utopianism and Eschatology: Judaism Engages TranshumanismHava Tirosh-Samuelson12 Rapture of the Geeks: Singularitarianism, Feminism, and the Yearning for TranscendenceAmy Michelle DeBaetsSection 4: Extreme Enhancement Ethics: Theological, Bioethical, and Philosophical Questions13 Transhumanism and Catholic Natural Law: Changing Human Nature and ChangingIntroduction: Making the Unknown KnownCalvin MercerSection 1: Theological Anthropology: What It Means to Be Human1 Transhumanism and the Meaning of LifeAnders Sandberg2 More Human Than the Human? Toward a "Transhumanist" Christian Theological AnthropologyMatthew Zaro Fisher3 Cindi, Six, and Her: Gender, Relationality, and Friendly Artificial IntelligenceJeanine Thweatt-BatesSection 2: Soteriology: Salvation Now and Forever4 "The Relief of Man's Estate": Transhumanism, the Baconian Project, and the Theological Impetus for Material SalvationJoseph Wolyniak5 A Salvation Paradox for Transhumanism: Saving You versus Saving YouPatrick D. Hopkins6 Diagnosing Death in the Transhumanism and Christian TraditionsTodd T. W. Daly7 Cyborg, Sage, and Saint: Transhumanism as Seen from an East Asian Theological SettingHeup Young KimSection 3: Eschatology: For What Do We Hope?8 Becoming God by the Numbers: An Evolutionary Journey toward the DivinePhilip A. Douglas9 The Religion of Technology: Transhumanism and the Myth of ProgressMichael S. Burdett10 Extreme Longevity: Insights from the Three Chinese Spiritual TraditionsGeoffrey Redmond11 Utopianism and Eschatology: Judaism Engages TranshumanismHava Tirosh-Samuelson12 Rapture of the Geeks: Singularitarianism, Feminism, and the Yearning for TranscendenceAmy Michelle DeBaetsSection 4: Extreme Enhancement Ethics: Theological, Bioethical, and Philosophical Questions13 Transhumanism and Catholic Natural Law: Changing Human Nature and Changing Moral NormsBrian Patrick Green14 The Risks of Transhumanism: Religious Engagements with the Precautionary and Proactionary PrinciplesDaniel McFee15 Christian Theology and Transhumanism: The "Created Co-creator" and Bioethical PrinciplesStephen Garner16 Remaking Human Nature: Transhumanism, Theology, and Creatureliness in Bioethical ControversiesCelia Deane-Drummond17 Critical Transhumanism as a Religious Ethic of OthernessSteven A. Benko and Amelia HrubySection 5: Body Matters18 Return of the Corporeal Battle: How Second-Century Christology Struggles Inform the Transhumanism DebateLee A. Johnson19 Flesh Made Data: The Posthuman Project in Light of the IncarnationBrent Waters20 Morphological Freedom and the Rebellion against Human Bodiliness: Notes from the Roman Catholic TraditionCory Andrew Labrecque21 The Fleshless Future: A Phenomenological Perspective on Mind UploadingHannah ScheidtSection 6: Corporeal Diversity and Religious Experience22 Does Transhumanism Face an Uncanny Valley among the Religious?Donald M. Braxton23 The Trans-Athlete and the Religion of Sport: Implications of Transhumanism for Elite Sport's Spiritual DimensionTracy J. Trothen24 Spiritual EnhancementRon Cole-TurnerConclusion: Transhumanism and Religion: Glimpsing the Future of Human EnhancementTracy J. TrothenBibliographyIndexAbout the Editors and Contributors. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- New York : Praeger
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (472 pages)
- Subjects:
- 202.2
Religion -- Philosophy
Humanism, Religious
Christianity and religious humanism
Theological anthropology
Technology -- Religious aspects
Religion -- General
Philosophy of religion - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9798216138006
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781440833250
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