Transhumanism and Christian Faith Search for a Discernment

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Carlo Lorenzo Rossetti

Abstract

This essay proposes a Christian discernment on the radical transhumanist phenomenon. We cannot deny the positive contributions of sciences and techniques (especially nanomedicine); but the transhumanist ideology – which is peculiar of a secularized neo-gnostic and neo-pelagian mentality – appears as the most powerful re-edition of the will to create a “new Man” without God and without Christ. In the light of the papal magisterium (especially of Paul VI) there are three criteria that transhumanism in fact contradicts: the necessity of a true integral human progress (cfr Populorum progressio); the dutiful respect for nature (cfr Humanae vitae) and above all the announcement of Christ as the true fulfillment of Man (cfr Evangelii nuntiandi).

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Rossetti, C. L. (2019). Transhumanism and Christian Faith: Search for a Discernment. Brasiliensis, 8(16), 7-32. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8128421
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Carlo Lorenzo Rossetti, Pontificia Università Lateranense, Roma.

Doutor em História da Filosofia pela Université Catholique de Louvain, na Bélgica. Doutor em Teologia pela Pontificia Università Gregoriana de Roma. Fez parte do corpo docente da Pontificia Università Lateranense de Roma. Reitor atual do Seminário Redemptoris Mater de Lezhë e leciona no Instituto Filosófico-Teológico de Escondra, na Albânia.

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Rossetti, C. L. (2019). Transhumanism and Christian Faith: Search for a Discernment. Brasiliensis, 8(16), 7-32. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8128421