Christian transhumanism Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Christian transhumanism refers to any approach which attempts to reconcile Christianity with transhumanism. Even though transhumanism and traditional religions such as Christianity are normally considered antithetical, more recent thought has questioned this assumption.
An example of a Christian transhumanist theology is to identify the singularity with the Second Coming, which implies that Jesus would return around the year 2030, thus potentially placing transhumanism within the tradition of doomsday predictions.
The identification of the technological singularity with Christian escathology requires a postmillenialist viewpoint, in which posthumanity is viewed as a good thing, the fulfillment of God's promises. (The "technical jesus" site linked below can be viewed as having a postmillenialist theology.) However, a premillenial theology could also be developed, in which the singularity is identified as the triumph of human pride over faith, a triumph in which Christ will intervene to prevent from occurring (thus placing the Second Coming before the technological singularity).
Mormonism's doctrine of deification may be considered a variant of transhumanism with an emphasis on humans progressing beyond their mortal human state to become like god. A Mormon-consistent-transhumanism would replace the more widely held concept of transhumanism's predilection with cyborg-type technological progress of humanity with the ideology that the god-like potential of the mortal, physical body is yet far from being fully realized.
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