ABSTRACT
The ecotheology and environmental ethics conference was based on a list of themes—climate change, biodiversity, land degradation, water, energy, and evolution—that, should be at the top of the priority list for an ideology that develops life-enhancing technology. While traditional belief positioned the Creator as the central agent of salvation history, medieval monastic spirituality had incorporated the fabrication of instruments that would enable humans to cooperate with the Creator to achieve a perfect, godlike existence. Instead, a deeper humanistic reflection is strongly needed to include the spiritual, aesthetic, ethical, linguistic, and visual dimensions of the human interpretation of life. The myths of purity and neutrality are part of technology's identity as a religious instrument for salvation. Indeed, religious nature-wisdom traditions can offer science a variety of concepts compatible with the proposed apophatic perspective. Rather, a key challenge to faith communities of all traditions is to revise and transform the concepts and uses of life-enhancing technology in accordance with religious wisdom.
