Eschatology and the Technological Future

Eschatology and the Technological Future argues that our dreaming about the technological future has religious motivations and provides an account of how Christianity might interact with it.

Michael Burdett traces the latent religious sources of our contemporary technological imagination by looking at visionary approaches to technology and the future in seminal technological utopias and science fiction and draws on past theological responses to the technological future in the work of Ellul and Teilhard de Chardin.

Burdett’s argument arrives at a contemporary Christian response to transhumanism based around the themes of possibility and promise and, throughout, the author highlights points of correspondence and divergence between technological futurisms and the Judeo-Christian understanding of the future.

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