ABSTRACT

The thesis of this chapter is that Pamela Sue Anderson’s notion of a "threshold for enhancing human life" can aid a reconstruction of and critical engagement with Anderson's final written and lived project. The author begin with a narration of participating with her and other scholars in the Enhancing Life Project. She and the author spoke briefly about applying to be part of the Enhancing Life Project they had already become acquainted through mutual friends and because of intersecting interests. In ancient narratives and tropes, the people also glimpse depictions of human life as susceptible to being changed, as situ-ated, and as lived and shaped among thresholds of transformation. The aliveness of life is intertwined with creaturely vulnerability to being changed, and particularly to perishing. Not an invulnerable state beyond suffering and living. Rather, glory is intertwined with the vulnerability of all living things to being changed.