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866197
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Christian perspectives on transhumanism and the church : : chips in the brain, immortality, and the world of tomorrow /\ Steve Donaldson, Ron Cole-Turner, editor.
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Cham :: Palgrave Macmillan,, [2018]
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, ©2018
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Palgrave studies in the future of humanity and its successors
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1 online resource
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3319903225
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: 9783319903224
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: 9783319903231
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3319903225
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9783319903224
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Intro; Foreword: The Moral Dilemmas of Technology; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction: Why the Church Should Pay Attention to Transhumanism; Why Christians Should Care About Transhumanism; Christians Responding; Wrestling with the Future; A Concluding Prologue; Bibliography; Part I: How Did We Get Here?; Chapter 2: From Lamech to Bezalel: Biblical Reflections on the Polyvalence of "Technology"; Introduction; Beginning a Conversation with Transhumanism; Scriptural Reflections on Technology; Technology in Genesis 3-6; Technology in Exodus 25-40
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Christianity Before There Was ReligionThe War Against Christianity That the Reformation Started; Science Discovers "God-of-the-Gaps" Doesn't Exist; Christianity: The Bioethicist Religion; The Current Predicament; Divorcing Atheistic Science; The Idea of the Christian University; Preaching the Natural Sciences; Bibliography; Part II: Confronting Transhumanism: From Hype to Hope; Chapter 6: The Imago Dei and the Imago Mundi; The Scope of This Discussion; A Supposedly Christian Argument for Extension of Lifespan; The Imago Dei: How and What; The Imago Dei and Transhumanism
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Contempt for PersonsBibliography; Chapter 9: Do Bigger Brains Mean Smaller Gods? Cognitive Science and Theological Perspectives on Transhumanism and the Church (or, Why We Can't Outrun Faith); Hope, Hype, and Reality; Great Expectations: HOPE; Dreams of Sugar Plum Fairies: HYPE; Computability; Complexity; Logic; We Can't Outrun Faith: REALITY; Conclusion; Bibliography; Part III: Technology and the Church of the Future; Chapter 10: Will the Transhuman Future Be Good or Bad for Humanity?; Introduction; The Nature of Human Nature; An Intuitive Argument Against Transhumanism
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Structural TranshumanismFunctional Transhumanism; Relational Transhumanism; An Objection and the Imago Mundi; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 7: Nietzsche's Power Ontology and Transhumanism: Or Why Christians Cannot Be Transhumanists; Introduction; The Body of Medicine; Futuristic Science and Transhumanism; Transhumanism's Power Ontology; The Utilitarian Default Position; For the Life of the World; Bibliography; Chapter 8: The Failed Fictions of Transhumanism; Introduction; No Place: Utopian Visions; A Thin Understanding of Character and Conflict; A Faulty Vision of the Good Life
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Technology in Revelation 21-22Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 3: Dragons and Dog-Headed Saints: Some Medieval Perspectives on the Significance of the Human Form; Introduction; The Monstrous Races; Are They Human?; God's Curse and God's Plan; Two Tales of Transcendence; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 4: "When That Which Is Perfect Is Come": Henry Drummond and "The Changed Life"; Introduction; The Greatest Good; Perfect Character Versus Self-Improvement; Mirrors; Advolution; The Practice; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 5: Christianity's Rigged Debate with Transhumanism; Introduction
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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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Christianity-- 21st century.
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Religion and science.
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Technology-- Religious aspects-- Christianity.
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Christianity.
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Religion and science.
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RELIGION-- Christian Life-- Social Issues.
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RELIGION-- Christianity-- General.
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Technology-- Religious aspects-- Christianity.
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261.56
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BR115.T42
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Cole-Turner, Ron
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Donaldson, Steve
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