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Future Perfect?: God, Medicine and Human Identity

Future Perfect?: God, Medicine and Human Identity


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Table of Contents:

Introduction. Future Perfect: What Should We Hope For?


Peter Scott and Celia Deane-Drummond.


A. Perspectives on Humans


Chapter 1. Ted Peters

Chapter 2. Gordon Graham

Chapter 3 Soren Holm

Chapter 4. Elaine Graham


B Medicalised Humans


Chapter 5 Michael Northcott

Chapter 6 Gareth Jones

Chapter 7 Gordon McPhate

Chapter 8 Neil Messer


C Fabulous Humans


Chapter 9 Jenny Kitzinger and Clare Williams

Chapter 10 Ulf Gorman

Chapter 11 Maureen Junker-Kenny

Chapter 12 Celia Deane-Drummond

Chapter 13 Brent Waters



About the Author :
Celia Deane-Drummond is Director of the Laudato Si' Research Institute and Senior Research Fellow in Theology, Campion Hall at University of Oxford, UK. Peter Manley Scott is Senior Lecturer in Christian Social Thought and Director of the Lincoln Theological Institute, University of Manchester.                      

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 'Together with faith and love, hope has for centuries been identified as one of the chief theological virtues.  The essays in Future Perfect? help us to ponder what Christian hope should mean in the face of technological and medical advances that transcend old limits,  that give us the power to reshape how and how long we live, and that  threaten (or promise) to transform even the meaning of human  identity.  In thinking theologically with the authors of the essays  collected here, readers will be invited to reflect upon the sort of  future for which we should hope.'Gilbert Meilaender, Duesenberg Professor in Christian Ethics, Valparaiso University, USA 'Breakthroughs in technology are about to transform human life.  Will we still be human?  Will we split into more than one species?  Will we live forever or merely for hundreds of years?  Shock and horror, some say, while others proclaim a new era of technological salvation.  Here at last we find something better-sober reflection and honest talk by serious religious intellectuals.  The technologies are many: nanotechnology, genetics, cognitive, and computers/robotics.  The expected convergences are profound: silicon chips implanted in brains, nanobots destroying cancer or rebuilding organs cell by cell, or genetically enhanced stem cells making aging brains better than new.   And the stakes are high: the future of justice, equality, and human nature itself.  The time for deep reflection is now.  As if for the first time, we need to ask the perennial questions all over again.  Who are we?  Where are we going?'Professor Ronald Cole-Turner, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, USA   'The editors of Future Perfect are renowned scholars of theology, ethics, and science.  They have assembled an impressive array of colleagues who take to a new level the discussion of innovations that are as morally baffling as they are culturally perilous.  The meanings of nature, health, suffering, technology, modernity, "perfection," and  change are probed with uncommon nuance, with no fear of hard questions, and with creative appeals to Christian concepts such as creation, salvation, eschatology, and love.  The international dimension of this work is essential to confront the global scope of the challenges before us.  This is a book no one who thinks seriously about such challenges should miss.'  Lisa Cahill, Professor of Theology, Boston College, Massachusetts, USA Future Perfect is a first rate collection of essays by a distinguished group of international experts in a wide range of bioethical issues. American readers will particularly benefit from the European perspective on issues relating to religion, science and ethics. The authors also provide excellent models for integrating religious and scientific issues.. This is an important addition to the bioethical literature.       Mention in Church Times, 1st February 2008


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780567234018
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 394 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0567234010
  • Publisher Date: 02 Feb 2010
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Sub Title: God, Medicine and Human Identity
  • Width: 156 mm


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