[[Christian Transhumanism]] is the name for a strain of Christian thinking going back through the Protestant Reformation, to the Patristic era, to the Jewish and Christian scriptures. It strongly influenced the [[Scientific Revolution]], the [[space race]], and the emergence of modern futurism. [[Secular Transhumanism]] in modern times derives from [[Julian Huxley]], who was explicit in his aims to create a secularized Christianity for a secular world. In current times, [[Christian Transhumanism]] is a conversation, an area of study, a revival of ancient Christian theology, and an ethics of science and technology. Its most prominent form is the [[Christian Transhumanist Association]], which seeks to promote dialogue and awareness between people of faith, and the leading edges of science and technology. ### History - Patristics & Early Church - [[Justin Martyr]] proclaimed the [[Resurrection of the Body]] - [[Saint Irenaeus]] described a [[Transcendent Humanism]] - [[Saint Macrina the Younger]] used science to prove resurrection of the body - see [[Scientific Resurrection]] - [[Gregory of Nyssa]] claimed God designed human anatomy to make us the technological species - 1320s [[Dante's Divine Comedy]] - "Words cannot tell of that transhuman change..." - 1620s [[Francis Bacon]] - [[The Royal Society]] - Thomas Jefferson - > __“Bacon, Locke and Newton. I consider them as the three greatest men that have ever lived, without any exception, and as having laid the foundation of those superstructures which have been raised in the Physical and Moral sciences.” — Thomas Jefferson__ - American [[Postmillennialism]] - [[Stone-Campbell Movement]] - Benjamin Franklin? - 1800s [[The Russian Cosmists]], religious imperative to use science to defeat death, and colonize space - 1929 [[The World, the Flesh & the Devil]] (secular transhumanism) - 1930s [[Pierre Teilhard de Chardin]] - Quotes on Transhumanism - Quotes on [[Omega Point]] - connections to Singularity - connections to Internet - References by Current Popes - association with [[Julian Huxley]] - 1940s [[WD Lighthall]] - "Paul's Transhumanism" - 1949 [[TS Elliot; The Cocktail Party (1949)]] (secular transhumanism) - 1957 [[Julian Huxley]] (secular transhumanism) - "The human species can, if it wishes, transcend itself — not just sporadically, an individual here in one way, an individual there in another way, but in its entirety, as humanity. We need a name for this new belief. **Perhaps transhumanism will serve: man remaining man, but transcending himself, by realizing new possibilities of and for his human nature.** "I believe in transhumanism": once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species will be on the threshold of a new kind of existence, as different from ours as ours is from that of Pekin man. It will at last be consciously fulfilling its real destiny." — Julian Huxley - 1958 [[CS Lewis]] - [[CS Lewis]] critiqued the secular transhumanism of his own day, and articulated a vision—incomplete at times—of a Christian Transhumanism, expansive, immersive, colorful, and full of diverse forms of life, drawn from the Eastern and Patristic traditions of Christianity. - https://www.cslewis.com/religion-and-rocketry/ - https://www.cslewis.com/us/books/paperback/miracles/9780060653019/ - https://www.cslewis.com/us/books/ebook/the-space-trilogy-omnib/9780062340870/ - https://www.cslewis.com/us/books/hardcover/mere-christianity-gift-edition/9780061350214/ - https://www.cslewis.com/us/books/hardcover/lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe-a-celebration-of-the-first-edition/9780061715051/ - 1968 [[John Warwick Montgomery; Cryonics and Orthodoxy]] - 1980s [[FM-2030]] - 1988 [[Extropianism]] - 1994 [[Frank Tipler]] publishes [[The Physics of Immortality (1994)]] describing the [[Omega Point Theory]] - 1998 [[World Transhumanist Association]] - 2003 [[Simulation Argument]] by [[Nick Bostrom]] - [[Ray Kurzweil]] - [[Kevin Kelly]] - [[David Deutsch]] - 2010s - History of the [[Christian Transhumanist Association]] - Other Influences on the modern Christian Transhumanist movement - [[Transcendent Humanism]] of Irenaeus and the early Christians - [[Eastern Orthodoxy]] - [[Wolfhart Pannenberg]] - [[GK Chesterton]] - [[Dallas Willard]] - [[CS Lewis]] - [[NT Wright]] - [[Physical Eschatology]] — "heaven on earth" - [[Steven Kotler]], [[Peter Diamandis]], [[Aubrey de Grey]] - [[Resources for Christian Transhumanists]]