Transhumanism and the Crosswise Institute
Thinking Fellows
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4.8 • 869 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2017
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Today, the Fellows have Dr. Joel Oesch on to define and discuss transhumanism and its importance. Transhumanism is defined by Dr. Oesch as a movement of people committed to using technology to further the human race in profound ways. In most iterations, Transhumanism is viewed as the next great step of human evolution. The Crosswise Institute is designed to educate and challenge high school students about important cultural and theological questions. This year they will host a summer experience for high school students surrounding the topic of transhumanism. The Thinking Fellows are giving away ten spots to the Institute follow the link below to contact us about this opportunity.
Notes:
Contact the Thinking Fellows to get your high schooler into Crosswise for free this June.  Please provide Name, Email, and Phone Number.Â
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast. I'm Caleb and I'm joined by Dr. Scott Keith and a guest today, Dr. Joel Esh. |
| 0:07.7 | And we're talking about a special topic today. We're going to talk about transhumanism. |
| 0:12.0 | If you've listened to our series, the one we're in right now, the great thinkers of the Christian faith, |
| 0:18.2 | you know that we advertise the Crosswise Institute for the last couple of |
| 0:22.6 | weeks, and this is going to be an event, a camp-like event at Concordia University Irvine, |
| 0:28.3 | and the special subject there, this is for high schoolers, is transhumanism. And so Dr. Esh is |
| 0:33.7 | heading up that at Concordia. And so we thought, thought you know it'd be great to have him on a special |
| 0:39.1 | episode of the thinking fellows to talk about what is transhumanism talk about crosswise a little bit |
| 0:44.7 | why people why this matters why this matters especially for our youth and things like that so |
| 0:50.3 | we're going to have dr keith once you let dr esh introduce himself listeners of the show, and then we'll start talking about transhumanism. |
| 0:58.0 | Sure. |
| 0:59.0 | First of all, Joel, welcome to Thinking Fellows. |
| 1:01.3 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:02.3 | Why don't you tell us a little bit about what you do over at Concordia? |
| 1:04.8 | Because you have kind of a unique role, one that you and I cross pass every once in a while because of your role. Yeah, I got a couple hats I wear out there. |
| 1:15.1 | So when I was originally called to serve Concordia, there were two hats involved. |
| 1:17.6 | The first was to be a professor of theology. So I'm responsible in great degree for the freshman corps, the initial freshman that come on into our university. |
| 1:24.8 | I get them through some basic theology, and then New |
| 1:28.4 | Testament sometimes is carried along with that. And then I have the great privilege of running the |
| 1:33.7 | master's program in theology out there. So I get the youngest and the oldest in some ways. And so I'll |
| 1:38.5 | have grad school. I run the grad school, get their MA and theology, let those students come through, |
| 1:45.6 | and we've got a couple different emphasis that we do, things like research or apologetics or Christian head leadership. And so my job |
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