Religion and the New Technologies / / edited by Noreen Herzfeld.

• TeilnehmendeR: Herzfeld, Noreen,
• Place / Publishing House: Basel : : MDPI,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (v, 142 pages) :; illustrations

In April 2000, Bill Joy, co-founder and chief scientist at Sun Microsystems published a controversial article entitled "Why the Future Does not Need Us." Joy called for a moratorium on research in three new technological fields--artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and genetic engineering. He noted that, while we were poised to make rapid technological advances in each of these areas, our understanding of the ethical questions these technologies would inevitably raise was lagging far behind. The intervening years since Joy's warning have indeed brought significant advances in each of these fields, advancements that have huge implications for how human life will unfold. Each holds great promise--for new medical cures, for new materials and machines, and for new insights into our world. However, each of these technologies also brings the possibility of great peril. For good or ill, these technologies will change the way we work, live, think, and love. Thus, it makes sense to approach them from a religious perspective. How do these new technologies change our understanding of ourselves, our place in the world, our relationships to one another, the way we face death, or our relationship to God?

Table of Contents

About the Special Issue Editor.v -- Noreen Herzfeld Introduction: Religion and the New Technologies Reprinted from: Religions 2017, 8(7), 129; doi: 10.3390/rel8070129 .1 -- Ted Peters Should CRISPR Scientists Play God? Reprinted from: Religions 2017, 8(4), 61; doi: 10.3390/rel8040061 .4 -- Brian Patrick Green The Catholic Church and Technological Progress: Past, Present, and Future Reprinted from: Religions 2017, 8(6), 106; doi: 10.3390/rel8060106 .15 -- Whitney A. Bauman Incarnating the Unknown: Planetary Technologies for a Planetary Community Reprinted from: Religions 2017, 8(4), 65; doi: 10.3390/rel8040065 .32 -- Cory Andrew Labrecque The Glorified Body: Corporealities in the Catholic Tradition Reprinted from: Religions 2017, 8(9), 166; doi: 10.3390/rel8090166 .42 -- Jeffrey C. Pugh The Disappearing Human: Gnostic Dreams in a Transhumanist World Reprinted from: Religions 2017, 8(5), 81; doi: 10.3390/rel8050081 .51 -- Levi Checketts New Technologies-Old Anthropologies? Reprinted from: Religions 2017, 8(4), 52; doi: 10.3390/rel8040052 .61 -- Brent Waters Willful Control and Controlling the Will: Technology and Being Human Reprinted from: Religions 2017, 8(5), 90; doi: 10.3390/rel8050090 .70 -- Calvin Mercer Resurrection of the Body and Cryonics Reprinted from: Religions 2017, 8(5), 96; doi: 10.3390/rel8050096 .77 -- Michael Fuller Big Data, Ethics and Religion: New Questions from a New Science Reprinted from: Religions 2017, 8(5), 88; doi: 10.3390/rel8050088 .86 -- Sara Lumbreras The Limits of Machine Ethics Reprinted from: Religions 2017, 8(5), 100; doi: 10.3390/rel8050100 .97 -- Tracy J. Trothen Moral Bioenhancement through An Intersectional Theo-Ethical Lens: Refocusing on Divine ImageBearing and Interdependence Reprinted from: Religions 2017, 8(5), 84; doi: 10.3390/rel8050084 .107 -- Ionut Untea Awe and Artifacts: Religious and Scientific Endeavor Reprinted from: Religions 2017, 8(5), 85; doi: 10.3390/rel8050085 .121.