AI, Cyborgs & Transhumanism: A Christian Perspective

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Is technology reshaping what it means to be human? Discover how your faith speaks to today’s most transformative innovations.
In a world where AI makes headlines daily and tech visionaries promise digital immortality, how should Christians respond with wisdom and discernment?

Join Dr. Eppinette’s dynamic 4-week cohort exploring the intersection of faith and frontier technologies:

What You’ll Experience:

  • Expert Guidance: Learn from Dr. Eppinette’s 20+ years of specialized research and teaching
  • Biblical Framework: Evaluate emerging technologies through an evangelical Christian lens
  • Live Discussions: Engage directly with challenging questions alongside fellow believers
  • FREE BOOK: Receive “The Age of AI” by Jason Thacker (included with registration!)

We’ll Explore:

  • The promise and peril of AI systems reshaping society
  • Technologies blurring the line between human and machine
  • Christian responses to transhumanist visions of enhanced humanity
  • Ethical frameworks for navigating technological adoption

This isn’t just theoretical—these technologies are already transforming healthcare, employment, relationships, and spiritual formation.

Don’t navigate this new frontier alone. Join a community of thoughtful Christians preparing to engage these challenges with biblical wisdom.

DATE AND TIME

Four Tuesdays
May 6 – 27, 2025
3:00 – 4:30 PM CST, with live Q&A
Participate Live or Watch On Demand at your leisure with session recordings

Instructor

Matthew Eppinette Headshot

Matthew Eppinette

Cost

Full Cost: $199
Your discount cost: $99
(with code: BULLETIN)

Organizers

Trinity Evangalical Divinity School

Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity

What's included

“Dr. Eppinette provides exactly what Christians need: clarity, biblical wisdom, and practical guidance for living faithfully in a tech-transformed world.”
Benjamin Clements, ThM

Week 1: Introduction and Overview: Framing the Subject

Tuesday May 6th | 3PM CST | ON DEMAND
First, we will look at how artificial intelligence, cybernetics, and the impetus toward transhumanism and posthumanism fit into the larger context of general technological development. In addition, we will introduce ways in which our Christian faith provides a framework for evaluating these and other emerging technologies. Finally, we will take a bird’s eye view of the coming weeks’ topics. (Each week’s gathering will include at least 30 minutes for questions and answers.)

Week 2: What’s So Intelligent about Artificial Intelligence?

Tuesday May 13th | 3:00PM | ON DEMAND

In our second week together, we will look at where artificial intelligence came from, its promises, and what perils might arise as this technology advances. We will use the framework outlined in Week One to evaluate AI from a specifically Christian point of view.

Week 3: Brain-Computer Interfaces, Robots, and Cyborgs, Oh My!

Tuesday May 20th | 3:00PM CST | ON DEMAND

Beyond AI, there is a push for merging the human and the machine via technologies like brain-computer interfaces, robotics, and cybernetics. What is the impulse behind technologies that interface with the human body, and how might Christian wisdom direct our thinking about it?

Week 4: What’s next for Humanity? A Christian Response

Tuesday May 27th | 3:00PM CST | ON DEMAND

All the technologies we have covered in the first three weeks, and others we haven’t mentioned, are being adopted by some as a means to progress to the next stage in evolution and usher in a so-called post-human future. What should we know about this transhuman movement? What does the Christian faith have to say in response? (This week will include an extended Q&A period.)

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Meet the Instructor

Matthew Eppinette, MBA, PhD (Fuller Theological Seminary), is the Executive Director of The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity (CBHD), a research center alongside Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Trinity Law School. He is also an Affiliate Professor of Bioethics at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and editor of the open-access, peer-reviewed publication Dignitas.

Dr. Eppinette spent seven years working in IT before switching to a career in bioethics. He now has more than two decades of experience in the field of bioethics, writing, teaching, and speaking on a wide variety of topics.

Among his publications are chapters in Everyday Theology: How to Read Cultural Texts and Interpret TrendsThe New Media Frontier, and Taking Persons Seriously: Where Philosophy and Bioethics Intersect. He is the editor, alongside Dónal P. O’Mathúna, Bryan A. Just, and Wilson Jeremiah, of Bioethics in Real Life. His writing can also be found in NewsweekThe Christian Post, and World. In addition, Dr. Eppinette has co-written and co-produced six documentary films that address issues in bioethics. He and his wife, Ginger, currently reside in suburban Chicago.