Human identity at the intersection of science, technology and religion / edited by Nancey Murphy and Christopher C. Knight.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Homo religiosus : a theological proposal for a scientific and pluralistic age / by Christopher C. Knight -- Religious symbolism : engaging the limits of human identification / by F. LeRon Shults -- Fundamentalism in science, theology, and the academy / by George F.R. Ellis -- Reductionism and emergence : a critical perspective / by Nancey Murphy -- Nonreductive human uniqueness : immaterial, biological, or psychosocial? / by Warren S. Brown -- Human and artificial intelligence : a theological response / by Noreen Herzfeld -- The emergence of morality / by James W. Haag -- What does it mean to be human? : genetics and human identity / by Martinez Hewlett -- Distributed identity : human beings as walking, thinking ecologies in the microbial world / by Wesley J. Wildman -- Without a horse : on being human in an age of biotechnology / by Noah Efron -- From human to posthuman : theology and technology / by Brent Waters -- Can we enhance the imago Dei? / by Ted Peters.

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Ideas of human nature in the West have always been shaped by the interplay of philosophy, theology, science, and technology. The fast pace of developments in the latter two spheres (neuroscience, genetics, artificial intelligence, biomedical engineering) call for fresh reflections on what it means, now, to be human, and for theological and ethical judgments on how we might shape our own destiny in the future. The leading scholars in this book offer fresh contributions to the lively quest for an account of ourselves that does justice to current developments in theology, science, technology, and.

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