Abstract

Transhumanism suggests that we should use technologies to enhance human beings, particularly to reduce illness, unnecessary suffering, and social ills. In this regard, there is a natural conversation between transhumanism and Christianity. To begin a substantive conversation with transhumanism, a re-conception of “technology” is needed, one that expands our understanding and can provide criteria for evaluating its function in our lives. This chapter suggests that, read in a narrative fashion, biblical texts can serve as a resource for deliberating about this and related challenges. Such an approach show both the destructive and constructive nature of technology for human communities and therefore the need to recognize the relationship between technology and human aspirations, especially religious ones.