Todd Daly is Associate Professor of Theology and Ethics at Urbana Theological Seminary and writes in the areas of medicine and human enhancement. He was an inaugural Paul Ramsey Fellow at the Center for Bioethics and Culture and currently serves as a fellow at the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity.
"Can science extend the human lifespan? Can we unlock the secrets
of the aging process and learn to slow it down? Yes, or so it seems
based on today's technical advances. In this groundbreaking study,
Todd Daly offers a first-rate summary of the science of aging. He
interrogates Christian attitudes toward aging across the centuries,
asking how Christians today should respond to the idea that
technology can delay aging. Chasing Methuselah is by far the best
theological treatment of a topic sure to command our attention in
the future."
--Ron Cole-Turner, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
"Daly has written an engaging book. He draws upon the Christian
theological tradition and a number of contemporary theologians to
trace the lineage of our current circumstances. . . . The
combination of theology and ethics gently pushes the reader to
consider who they are as embodied and thereby finite creatures who
grow old over time. And that is no reason to despair, for that is
what creatures are intended to do by their Creator."
--Brent Waters, from the Foreword
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