It’s a term with a lot of contemporary currency: transhumanism.

Online, on TV, in print — it repeatedly surfaces, both intriguing and yet somehow vaguely threatening.

So just what is it? And how does it look when viewed through the lenses of philosophy, science and theology?

A May 15 discussion of the Institute for Human Ecology at The Catholic University of America in Washington offered immediate insight with its title, “Transhumanism: The Last Heresy?”

To this, it added the thoughts of its panelists, institute scholar Jan Bentz, lecturer and tutor at Blackfriars Studium in Oxford, England; Wael Taji Miller, editor at the Axioma Center, the first Christian, faith-based think tank in Hungary; and Legionary of Christ Father Michael Baggot, a professor of theology and bioethics currently

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