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January 2021

January 29, 2021

Technology and the disappearance of the person

The achievements of technology for the enhancement of human life are rich in promise, pointing...

June 2020

June 10, 2020

Aging, Technology and Identity: Reflections with Jean Améry

by Dr. Michael Mawson, Senior Lecturer in Systematic Theology & Ethics and Research Fellow in...

May 2020

May 26, 2020

The Grace of Creatureliness: Technology, Disability, and Human Limitation

by Eleanor McLaughlin, Lecturer in Theology and Ethics, Regent’s Park College, Oxford, and Course Coordinator...

April 2020

April 09, 2020

Remembering Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Feb. 4, 1906-April 9, 1945)

Today, 75 years ago, on April 9, 1945, the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was...

March 2020

March 23, 2020

Technology and Human Creativity in Theological Perspective

by Victoria Lorrimar Created to be creators? In engaging with transhumanist visions of the future,...

March 23, 2020

Friending the World – Sociality and the Transhuman Vision

by Clark Elliston, Assistant Professer of Religion and Philosophy, Schreiner University Friends are all-too-frequently taken...

March 10, 2020

Transhumanism and Human Flourishing: A Critical Engagement

In June of 2019, a group of scholars gathered in Oxford to share ideas and...

February 2020

February 10, 2020

Technology’s ‘Invisible Hand’?: An Account of Divine Providence and the Techno-scientific Myth of Progress

This presentation is guided by the question: How do we understand and how ought...

February 10, 2020

Where Tech and Humanity Meet: Practice and Formation in the Church and Posthumanism

This presentation argues that a Christian incarnational response to posthumanism must recognize that what...

December 2019

December 04, 2019

Abandoning Earth: Personhood and the Techno-Fiction of Transhumanism

by Jens Zimmermann, Project Director, Human Flourishing; Canada Research Professor for Interpretation, Religion, and Culture...

October 2019

October 04, 2019

Education and Enhancement in a Transhuman Future

by David Lewin Should we expect the schools of the future to be saturated with...

October 04, 2019

Technology, Distractions, and the Care of the Body

by Brent Waters Technology is useful and beneficial. With various technologies we can accomplish a...

October 04, 2019

A Dead Metaphor and Reproductive Organs: Timely Reflections on Technology and Human Agency

by Robert Doede History teaches us that civilizations’ most advanced technologies typically become their root...

October 04, 2019

Transhuman Utopias and De-Extinction

by Celia Deane-Drummond Delving into the deep past in order to help understand the present...

August 2019

August 22, 2019

Michael Burdett at the St John’s Timeline Project: Technology and Theology, Part 1

As part of the St. John’s Timeline project, Michael Burdett gives a lecture on the...

March 2019

March 01, 2019

Being Human—Being a Person

In December of 2018, several scholars met at Oxford to discuss what it means to...

December 2018

December 11, 2018

Playing at Life: Leisure and Play in a Technological World

Clark Elliston explores the role of “play” in human life. He reflects on the nature...

November 2018

November 16, 2018

Jens Zimmermann: Human Flourishing in a Technological World: The First Year

Project Director Jens Zimmermann reflects on the recent year and looks toward the future of...

November 01, 2018

JP Bishop: Death and the Technological Imaginary

Delivered recently at Durham to the scholars of the Christian Flourishing project, in this lecture...

October 2018

October 29, 2018

David Lewin: Thinking About Tomorrow: Where Theology, Technology, and Education Meet

David Lewin asks if the domains of theology, technology, and education mutually illuminating or do...

September 2018

September 21, 2018

Robert Doede: Human Nature, Technology and Mind-Uploading

This post traces the history of human nature and then relates this nature to the...

September 07, 2018

Michael Mawson: Theological Anthropology and Extending Life

Michael Mawson asks “How should Christians understand and respond to recent technologies aiming to radically...

August 2018

August 09, 2018

Celia Deane-Drummond: Features of Our Humanitas in a Cyborg Age

Celia Deane-Drummond introduces theologians to “extended evolutionary synthesis,” a concept known to some evolutionary theorists....

August 09, 2018

Thomas Fuchs: In Defense of the Human Person

This post by Thomas Fuchs argues that the human mind must be understood through an...

August 09, 2018

David Lewin: I Post Therefore I Am: The Formation of Identity in an Age of Social Media

David Lewin argues that the identify-forming capacity of social media needs to be a key...

August 09, 2018

John Behr: Dying to Live? Or How to Become a Human Being?

Fr. John Behr considers death and finitude, concluding that “If we don’t ‘see’ death today...

August 09, 2018

Brent Waters: Aspiring to be Habitually Ordinary

Dr. Brent Waters contrasts the “extraordinary world” we create through technology with the “everyday mundane”...

June 2018

June 07, 2018

Celia Deane-Drummond: The Lost Soul of Early Hominins

This lecture addresses several recent archaeological discoveries about early hominins, discoveries that help us think...

May 2018

May 03, 2018

Jens Zimmermann: A Theological Account of Personhood

Jens Zimmermann has been awarded a British Academy Visiting Fellowship and will be conducting research...

May 03, 2018

Robert Doede: The Neo-Gnostic Flight from What Matters

In this lecture, Robert Doede undertakes a multi-dimensional examination of the Neo-Gnostic impulse, which he...

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