Transumanismo e Fé Cristã: Busca por um discernimento

https://brasiliensis.cerm.org.br/index.php/brasiliensis/article/view/150/version/150

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).