Human Technological Enhancement and Theological Anthropology
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2022
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-316-51502-0 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-316-51502-0 (ISBN)
A cross-disciplinary theological engagement with proposals for the technological enhancement of humans, including radical life extension, mind-uploading, mood enhancement and moral enhancement. This work draws on metaphor studies, cognitive sciences, and literary studies to develop an account of human creativity in relation to divine creativity.
In this book, Victoria Lorrimar explores anthropologies of co-creation as a theological response to the questions posed by technologically enhanced humans, a prospect that is disturbing to some, but compelling for many. The centrality the imagination for moral reasoning, attested in recent scholarship on the imagination, offers a fruitful starting point for a theological engagement with these envisioned technological futures. Lorrimar approaches the topic under the purview of a doctrine of creation that affirms a relationship between human and divine creativity. Traditionally, theological treatments of creativity have been almost exclusively applied to artistic endeavours. Here, Lorrimar breaks new ground by extending such theological accounts to include technology, and uniting them with the strengths of scientific accounts of co-creation. She draws on metaphor studies, cognitive sciences, as well as literary studies, to develop an account of human creativity in relation to divine creativity, which is then applied to various enhancement scenarios.
In this book, Victoria Lorrimar explores anthropologies of co-creation as a theological response to the questions posed by technologically enhanced humans, a prospect that is disturbing to some, but compelling for many. The centrality the imagination for moral reasoning, attested in recent scholarship on the imagination, offers a fruitful starting point for a theological engagement with these envisioned technological futures. Lorrimar approaches the topic under the purview of a doctrine of creation that affirms a relationship between human and divine creativity. Traditionally, theological treatments of creativity have been almost exclusively applied to artistic endeavours. Here, Lorrimar breaks new ground by extending such theological accounts to include technology, and uniting them with the strengths of scientific accounts of co-creation. She draws on metaphor studies, cognitive sciences, as well as literary studies, to develop an account of human creativity in relation to divine creativity, which is then applied to various enhancement scenarios.
Victoria Lorrimar is Lecturer in Systematic Theology, Trinity College Queensland, Australian College of Theology, University of Queensland.
Part I. Understanding the Challenges: 1. Visions of human enhancement; 2. Human creativity; Part II. Responding Theologically to Human Enhancement: 3. Humans as 'created co-creators'; 4. Co-creation and the imagination; 5. Humans as 'sub-creators'; Part III. Seeking a Synthesis: 6. A new model of human creativity; 7. A productive approach.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.04.2022 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 145 x 222 mm |
| Gewicht | 592 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-316-51502-8 / 1316515028 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-316-51502-0 / 9781316515020 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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