The timeless human desire to be more beautiful, intelligent,
healthy, athletic, or young has given rise in our time to
technologies of human enhancement. Athletes use drugs to increase
their strength or stamina; cosmetic surgery is widely used to
improve physical appearance; millions of men take drugs like Viagra
to enhance sexual performance. And today researchers are exploring
technologies such as cell regeneration and implantable devices that
interact directly with the brain. Some condemn these developments
as a new kind of cheating -- not just in sports but in life itself
-- promising rewards without effort and depriving us most of all of
what it means to be authentic human beings. "Transhumanists," on
the other hand, reject what they see as a rationalizing of human
limits, as if being human means being content forever with
underachieving bodies and brains. To be human, they insist, is to
be restless with possibilities, always eager to transcend
biological limits.
As the debate grows in urgency, how should theology respond?
Christian theologians recognize truth on both sides of the
argument, pointing out how the yearnings of the transhumanists --
if not their technological methods -- find deep affinities in
Christian belief. In this volume, Ronald Cole-Turner has joined
seasoned scholars and younger, emerging voices together to bringing
fresh insight into the technologies that are already reshaping the
future of Christian life and hope.
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