Transumanismul – considerații teologice și etice
Transhumanism. Theological and ethical considerations

Summary/Abstract: The current technological and biomedical discoveries operationalized by the trans-humanist ideology as argumentation for the biological immortality of human being, challenges the Christian theology to a deeper reflection of the meaning of death and life, as well as awareness of the responsibility towards its own nature, in order to protect human dignity. The transhumanism project aims to provide the hope of terrestrial immortality or at least the prolongation of life near the matusalemic ages. Such a generous offer brings with it many risks and challenges, at individual and community level. Analyzing the proposals made by the transhumanism we can ask ourselves: Can the human genome be subjectof a process of editing or reediting? Does the improvement of physical, intellectual or moral capacities have a purely utilitarian character? The Christianity is faced with an ideology that outlines its own soteriology and eschatology. Even if the transhumanism does not aim to be a religion, there are some aspects that require a theological analysis. It inspires to peoples the idea that mortality is only a stage that will be overcome by the development of technology. The redemption of the death and theconquest of immortality with it, through various forms such as: genetic editing, human-machine hybridization or cyborg, transfer of the consciousness into a machine, are the interpretation keys of a salvation through matter, with the help of matter, but only in the plan of the potentialities of matter, without any desire to overcome matter.

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