'Together with faith and love, hope has for centuries been identified as one of the chief theological virtues. The essays in Future Perfect? help us to ponder what Christian hope should mean in the face of technological and medical advances that transcend old limits, that give us the power to reshape how and how long we live, and that threaten (or promise) to transform even the meaning of human identity. In thinking theologically with the authors of the essays collected here, readers will be invited to reflect upon the sort of future for which we should hope.'Gilbert Meilaender, Duesenberg Professor in Christian Ethics, Valparaiso University, USA