Human Technological Enhancement and Theological Anthropology

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-316-51502-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 636 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lorrimar, Victoria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsethik, Weltethos

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Lorrimar, Victoria
Victoria Lorrimar is Lecturer in Systematic Theology, Trinity College Queensland, Australian College of Theology, University of Queensland.