Future Perfect?

Celia Deane-Drummond is Director of the Laudato Si' Research Institute and Senior Research Fellow in Theology, Campion Hall at University of Oxford, UK.Peter Manley Scott is Senior Lecturer in Christian Social Thought and Director of the Lincoln Theological Institute, University of Manchester.

• Introduction. Future Perfect: What Should We Hope For?Peter Scott and Celia Deane-Drummond.A. Perspectives on HumansChapter 1. Ted PetersChapter 2. Gordon GrahamChapter 3 Soren HolmChapter 4. Elaine GrahamB Medicalised HumansChapter 5 Michael NorthcottChapter 6 Gareth JonesChapter 7 Gordon McPhateChapter 8 Neil MesserC Fabulous HumansChapter 9 Jenny Kitzinger and Clare WilliamsChapter 10 Ulf GormanChapter 11 Maureen Junker-KennyChapter 12 Celia Deane-DrummondChapter 13 Brent Waters

'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