Paschal M. Corby OFM Conv., MBBS (Hons), BTheol (Hons), STL, STD, is a Catholic priest of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Australia. His doctoral thesis, which forms the content of this book, was awarded the 2017 Sub Auspiciis Award for the publication of outstanding dissertations from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute in Rome. He currently teaches bioethics at the Institute's Melbourne campus.
"This work evinces a masterly interplay of themes in philosophy,
science, and theology. Paschal Corby brings into juxtaposition the
radically different understandings of human nature to be found in
transhumanist publications on the one side and Christian thought on
the other. He compellingly argues that transhumanist thought is a
symptom of the materialist reduction of human nature to chemicals,
a denial of human freedom, and a tragic withering of hope in the
capacity for transcendence."
--Tracey Rowland, University of Notre Dame (Australia)
"Who would not want to listen to a dialogue between the
unscrupulous Oxford transhumansts and the greatest Catholic thinker
alive? Paschal Corby's book presents a concise, yet rigorous,
confrontation over the Promethean potentiality of biotechnology and
on the future of humanity, something which vitally concerns us
all."
--Livio Melina, Professor of Fundamental Moral Theology, Pontifical
"John Paul II" Theological Institute, Rome
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