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Home About Scholars Events Blog Subscribe Contact Home About Scholars Events Blog Subscribe Contact Home About Scholars Events Blog Subscribe Contact Human Flourishing in a Technological World: A Christian Perspective A THREE-YEAR RESEARCH PROJECT WORKING TOWARD A COMPREHENSIVE CHRISTIAN VISION FOR HUMAN FLOURISHING IN A WORLD OF TECHNOLOGY "Human Flourishing in a Technological World: A Christian Vision" is a three year research project seeking to answer the question, "What does it mean to be hu... Involving scholars from Canada, the USA, Australia, Germany, and the UK, this collaborative project aims to provide a comprehensive theological assessment of recent technologies' impact on human nature and human life. The research program has three main objectives. First, to establish, in critical dialogue with philosophy, biology, and sociology, a modern theological anthropology in continuity with classic orthodox Christian theology in all three major confessions (Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Protestant). Second, to evaluate visions of human flourishing represented by technological culture, from social media to bio-genetic, enhancement technologies, including transhumanist dreams of transcending the body. Third, to provide a theologically grounded perspective on human flourishing in an age of technology. All research results will be published in print and internet media. Read the full project overview The Library Our library contains three years of curated contents from leading scholars. Explore the meaning of transhumanism and posthumanism, hear critical analysis of these theories, receive resources for engaging current issues (e.g., aging, education), or watch our scholars cast a vision for human flourishing from a Christian perspective. SAMPLES FROM THE LIBRARY Dr John Behr queries the erasure of death from the horizon of sight in the modern Western world: what challenges does this erasure raise for our understanding of ourselves as embodied human beings? Click to watch ⭢ Dr. Robert Doede delineates some of the key conceptual shifts in the history of the West that have crucially contributed to the conceivability and perhaps even the plausibility of the contemporary transhumanist project of engineering mind uploading. Click to watch ⭢ Jens Zimmermann, Regent College’s J.I. Packer Chair of Theology, addresses modern understandings of human consciousness, including Trans- and Post- humanist visions for the future of human society, and argues that contemporary notions of the human person presume a reductive model of human identity rooted in an already defunct scientific epistemology Click to watch ⭢. View the Full Library Recent Articles, Essays, and Lectures EMBODIED COGNITION AND PSYCHIATRY IN A TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD WITH DR. THOMAS FUCHS Prof. Dr. Thomas Fuchs argues from a psychiatrist's perspective against the new gnosticism of the transhumanist movement, which assumes a fundamental mind-body dualism, insisting rather that processes of life and consciousness are inseparably linked through the living body as a whole. In the unity of the person, both aspects are intertwined: the body is alive and therefore also mindful; the mind is alive and therefore also truly embodied. Watch all videos from the winter 2021 lecture series here. Click to watch Fuchs lecture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Featured Feb 8, 2022 Jens Zimmermann Introduces His Book, Hermeneutics: A Very Short Introduction Feb 8, 2022 Feb 8, 2022 Nov 29, 2021 New Essay by Dr. David Lewin in Ricoeur Volume Nov 29, 2021 Nov 29, 2021 Oct 25, 2021 New Book by Dr. Thomas Fuchs Oct 25, 2021 Oct 25, 2021 Oct 25, 2021 Michael Burdett Essay: Incarnation, Posthumanism and Performative Anthropology: The Body of Technology and the Body of Christ Oct 25, 2021 Oct 25, 2021 Mar 29, 2021 Being Human in a Technological World: Pointers from Patristic Anthropology: A Lecture by Rev. Dr. John Behr Mar 29, 2021 Mar 29, 2021 Feb 10, 2021 The West's Journey from Living Souls to Software Selves: A Lecture by Dr. Robert Doede Feb 10, 2021 Feb 10, 2021 See all articles, essays, and talks Scholars A group of established scholars from the fields of biology, general humanities, philosophy, psychiatry, and theology PROJECT LEADERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTOR DR. JENS ZIMMERMANN Jens Zimmermann is J.I. Packer Chair of Theology at Regent College/UBC and Research Associate at the Centre for Theology and Modern European Thought (CTMET) in Oxford. This project, generously supported by a grant arranged through the Issachar Fund, extends Zimmermann's previous research on Christian humanism, theology, and hermeneutic philosophy by examining how technology shapes our conceptions of human identity and perception, of who we are and how we know, and how human relations, policies, and institutions are impacted, in turn, by these changes in human identity and perception. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CO-DIRECTOR DR. MICHAEL BURDETT Michael Burdett is Assistant Professor in Christian Theology at the University of Nottingham, a member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford and an associate of the Ian Ramsey Centre, Oxford. Before becoming an academic, he worked in the aerospace and robotics industries with a firm that had contracts with NASA and JPL. As part of this project he is advancing his work begun in Eschatology and the Technological Future by focusing on how death and glory are experienced and related to in highly technological societies and how our perception of both are conditioned by the forces of science and technology today. Throughout he analyses how death and glory are inseparably related to one another in humanist, transhumanist and Christian thought. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTING SCHOLARS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Very Rev. Dr. John Behr Regius Chair in Humanity, University of Aberdeen Dr. Celia Deane-Drummond Director of Laudato Si' Research Institute and Senior Research Fellow, Campion Hall, University of Oxford Dr. Robert Doede Professor of Philosophy, Trinity Western University Dr. Clark Elliston Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy, Schreiner University Prof. Dr. Thomas Fuchs Karl Jaspers Professor for Philosophical Foundations of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Heidelberg, Germany Dr. David Lewin Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Education, Strathclyde University Dr. Michael Mawson Senior Lecturer in Systematic Theology and Ethics and Research Fellow in The Public and Contextual Theology Research Centre at Charles Sturt University, Australia Dr. Eleanor McLaughlin Programme Leader for the Postgraduate Programmes in Theology, Imagination and Culture, Sarum College, United Kingdom Dr. Ashley John Moyse McDonald Postdoctoral Fellow in Christian Ethics and Public Life, Christ Church, University of Oxford Dr. Brent Waters Jerre and Mary Joy Stead Professor of Christian Social Ethics, Garrett-Evangelical Seminary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WATCH EACH SCHOLAR GIVE AN INTRODUCTION TO HIS OR HER WORK WITH THE HUMAN FLOURISHING PROJECT: The scholars of the "Human Flourishing in a Technological World" project introduce their research. 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