After identifying problems with infernalism [everlasting hell] and contingent immortality [some souls are annihilated], we make a case for universal salvation by God's grace. Read more
After identifying problems with infernalism [everlasting hell] and contingent immortality [some souls are annihilated], we make a case for universal salvation by God's grace. Read more
One the one hand, the Copernican Principle means that cosmic consciousness provides us on Earth with a perspective. Space is big, magnificent, unfathomable. We are small. On the other hand, in an oblique and distorted way, cosmic consciousness prompts awareness of our own fallenness. Our own needless violence. Our own insane penchant for self-destruction. Read more
Will the posthuman supersede and replace the human? Or, will the posthuman merely enhance the human? Just what does 'trans' in 'transhumanism' point to? Read more
It would be difficult, I think, to combine the Promethean self-understanding within transhumanism with any religious vision that requires human humility before a holy God. Therefore, "Transhumanist Christianity" or TC+ might be a better term than "Christian Transhumanism" or CH+. Read more
Easter's Cosmic Meaning is this: God's plan to finish creation by redeeming creation is anticipated proleptically in Jesus' Easter resurrection. As God raised Jesus, so also will God raise you and me. As God raised Jesus to eternal life, so also will God renew and eternalize, so to speak, the redeemed creation. All of creation. Now, that's a lot of meaning. ▓ Read more
What is public theology? Among other agendas, the public theologian takes up both ecumenical and ecumenic matters. To be ecumenical is to be pan Christian. To be ecumenic is to address the world, planet Earth and the cosmos. Read more
Like siblings born to Enlightenment parents, both Unitarian Universalism and transhumanism inherited a reliance on science, reason, and liberal values. Both are naturalistic. Both pursue transcendence through technological transformation. That these two would give birth to UU transhumanism should come as no surprise. Just ask James Hughes. Read more
Dial 9-1-1! They’re coming from every direction to steal my free will! Woe is me! How can I protect my libertarian freedom from divine predestination? Divine foreknowledge? Bondage to sin? Political tyranny? Genetic determinism? And now from neuro-deterministic brain science? Free will deniers on all sides are closing in. Help! Read more
The Ukrainian war forces our leadership to choose between multiple evils. Some evils are worse than others. Nuclear war is worse than all other alternatives. So, sin boldly! Read more
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