Reaching for Immortality: Can Science Cheat Death?

“Communities are often unprepared for conversation about the impact of technological change. Sandra Godde helps prepare Christians to think carefully, using major principles, to consider the challenges and opportunities offered by transhumanism. Should we want to live forever on this earth? What difference will it make to faith, hope, and love? Sandra’s clear theological and scientific explanations provide an accessible, well-referenced, and highly readable primer. Take it up and read it.”
—John Mark Capper, Stirling College

“Reaching for Immortality provides an accessible and interesting engagement with transhumanism. Godde brings together issues arising in popular culture and theological scholarship to provide a fun and enlightening read for anyone interested in reflecting on what the big questions raised by science fiction mean for us as Christians as we consider what it is to be a human person.”
—Christy Capper, Wollaston College

“Godde presents us with a future transhumanist world where our bodies are nothing but ‘jelly’ and our ‘brains’ can be digitized and uploaded—sounds like a nightmare to me (especially if the computer crashes!). She contrasts this dystopian future with the beautiful Christian vision of an embodied and relational humanity. . . . She writes in clear and beautiful prose, reminding us that technology should serve humanity, rather than humanity being lost to technology.”
—Terry A. Veling, author of The Beatitude of Mercy