极乐禁地’s Center for Science and Religion will host a conference on “Transhumanism and the Church: Theological Reflections on Technology and Human Enhancement” September 24-26.
is the movement that embraces the opportunity to transcend humans’ physical and mental limits through new technology. Its most optimistic advocates predict a future in which death has been defeated through the power to reverse biological processes or offload mental states onto computers.
The 极乐禁地 conference, funded by a generous grant from the , will consider the ways the church might respond to Transhumanism and the technologies that could revolutionize our understanding of human nature.
Keynote Speakers will include:
Jeffrey Bishop, author, Chasing After Virtue: Neuroscience, Economics, and the Biopolitics of Morality
Michael Burdett, author, Eschatology and the Technological Future
Ron Cole-Turner, editor, Transhumanism and Transcendence: Christian Hope in an Age of Technological Enhancement
Steve Donaldson, author, Dimensions of Faith: Understanding Faith Through the Lens of Science and Religion
Joel Garreau, author, Radical Evolution:
The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies—and What It Means to be Human
Steven Kraftchick, author, Biblical Theology: Problems and Prospects
Christina Bieber Lake, author, Prophets of the Posthuman: American Literature, Biotechnology, and the Ethics of Personhood
Jeanine Thweatt-Bates, author, Cyborg Selves: A Theological Anthropology of the Posthuman