The Enhancing Life Project, Panel Discussion
4:30 – 6:00 PM
Swift Hall Common Room
On Tuesday, December 1, 2015 the Theology & Religious Ethics Workshop will hold a special session featuring The Enhancing Life Project. All are welcome to join us from 4:30 – 6:00 PM in the Common Room for a panel discussion with the Principal Investigators, Prof. Schweiker and Prof. Günter Thomas (Ruhr-University Bochum), along with Prof. Culp and Prof. Sulmasy, who are two of the thirty-five scholars selected to be part of the Project.We will hear about the history, development and aims of Enhancing Life Project and learn about each of the scholars’ individual research projects (see titles below).
About The Enhancing Life Project
The Enhancing Life Project explores an essential aspiration of human beings that moves persons and communities into the future. Given the profound expansion of human power through technology as well as advances in genetics, ecology, and other fields, the vulnerability and endangerment as well as the enhancement of life are dominant themes in the global age. The Enhancing Life Project aims to explore this rich but widely unexamined dimension of human aspiration and social life, and increase knowledge so that life might be enriched. Learn more.
Panelists:
- William Schweiker, Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Chicago
Research Project Title: Spiritual Laws, Human Flourishing, and Global Humanism - Günter Thomas, Professor of Systematic Theology and Ethics, Ruhr-University Bochum
Research Project Title: The Pragmatics of Religious Counter Worlds: Enhancing the Life Given and Hoped For - Kristine Culp, Associate Professor of Theology, Dean of the Disciples Divinity House of the University of Chicago
Research Project Title: Glorious Life?
Project Description: http://enhancinglife.uchicago.edu/people/limned-by-glory-theological-resources-for-imagining-and-enhancing-vulnerable-life - Daniel Sulmasy, Professor of Medicine and Ethics, Director of the Program on Medicine and Religion, University of Chicago
Research Project Title: Now and at the Hour of Our Death
Project Description: http://enhancinglife.uchicago.edu/people/now-and-at-the-hour-of-our-death