Creative creatures : values and ethical issues in theology, science and technology / editors, Ulf Görman, Willem B. Drees, Hubert Meisinger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Görman, Ulf, 1943-

Drees, Willem B., 1954-

Meisinger, Hubert.

European Society for the Study of Science and Theology.

Series:

Issues in science and theology (London, England)

Issues in science and theology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and science--Congresses.

Religion and science.

Technology--Religious aspects--Christianity--Congresses.

Technology.

Technology--Moral and ethical aspects--Congresses.

Technology--Moral and ethical aspects.

Technology--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiii, 191 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : T & T Clark International, [2005]

Summary:

Creative Creatures introduces a new theme into the growing field of science-and-theology by focusing on topics that have so far received little attention from scholars, namely ethical issues raised by the technological applications of scientific knowledge. The main themes explored include technology's impact on our worldview, morality, nature and culture in a technological society, along with discussions of artificial intelligence and biotechnology.

With contributions from leading scholars, this volume offers new perspectives on theological themes such as creation, nature and humans as co-creators. It will help readers to develop a broader and deeper understanding of the complexity of values behind and evaluations of technology.

This is the third volume to be published in association with Essat in the Issues in Science and Theology series.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction: technological and moral creatures or creators? / Willem B. Drees 1

Part I Technology's Impact on Our Worldview

Chapter 2 ICT and the character of finitude / Rene P. H. Munnik 15

Chapter 3 Technology and the changing notion of nature / Zbigniew Liana 34

Chapter 4 Co-creator or co-creator? the problem with artificial intelligence / Noreen Herzfeld 45

Chapter 5 From thou to IT: information technology from the perspective of the language philosophy of Rosenzweig and Rosenstock-Huessy / Otto Kroesen 53

Chapter 6 Being cyborgs: on creating humanity in a created world of technology / Taede Smedes 64

Part II Morality, Nature and Culture

Chapter 7 The perennial debate about human goodness: the primate evidence / Frans B. M. de Waal 75

Chapter 8 Theological reflections on the moral nature of nature / Nancey Murphy 92

Chapter 9 Is it suitable to translate Christian anthropological topics into genetic and cognitive categories? The case of original sin / Lluis Oviedo 107

Part III Morality in a Technological Society

Chapter 10 Ethical issues of AI and biotechnology / Margaret A. Boden 123

Chapter 11 Co-creation or hubris? Responses to biotechnology in Christianity, Judaism and Islam / Ulf Gorman 134

Chapter 12 The human being a co-creator? Theological reflections on reproductive cloning of human individuals / Jan-Olav Henriksen 152

Chapter 13 When astronomers and environmentalists clash over a sky island / Christopher J. Corbally, SJ 162

Chapter 14 The crisis of ideologies and the need for a new anthropology: values education in a technological and pragmatic age / Angela Roothaan 170.

Notes:

"This volume has its origins in the Ninth European Conference on Science and Theology, organized by ESSSAT, the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0567030881

056703089X

OCLC:

62089068