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Human identity at the intersection of science, technology, and religion [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Nancey Murphy and Christopher C. Knight |
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Burlington, VT, : Ashgate Pub., c2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-317-12003-5 |
1-282-77408-5 |
9786612774089 |
1-4094-1051-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (254 p.) |
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Collana |
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Ashgate science and religion series |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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MurphyNancey C |
KnightChristopher C. <1952-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Human beings |
Religion and science |
Theological anthropology - Christianity |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Part I The Limits of Religion, the Limits of Science; 1 Homo Religiosus: A Theological Proposal for a Scientific and Pluralistic Age; 2 Religious Symbolism: Engaging the Limits of Human Identification; 3 Fundamentalism in Science, Theology, and the Academy; Part II The Emergence of the Distinctively Human; 4 Reductionism and EmergenceA Critical Perspective; 5 Nonreductive Human UniquenessImmaterial, Biological, or Psychosocial?; 6 Human and Artificial IntelligenceA Theological Response; 7 The Emergence of Morality |
Part III The Future of Human Identity8 What Does It Mean to Be Human?Genetics and Human Identity; 9 Distributed Identity:Human Beings as Walking, Thinking Ecologies in the Microbial World; 10 Without a Horse:On Being Human in an Age of Biotechnology; 11 From Human to PosthumanTheology and Technology; 12 Can We Enhance the Imago Dei?; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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