Return to Babylon: From Adam to AntiChrist

In an era defined by technological ambition and spiritual questioning, Return to Babylon: From Adam to Antichrist presents a rigorous study at the intersection of Intellectual History and Religious Studies. David Patrick Harry, PhD, offers a critical examination of modern transhumanism through the lens of Eastern Orthodox theology, revealing how attempts at technological self-deification draw upon deep historical and metaphysical currents within Christian thought. The book contrasts these developments with the premodern Christian vision of theosis—a transformative participation in divine life through union with the Logos, Jesus Christ.

Western civilization now faces two competing postsecular narratives: the rationalist, technological ambitions of transhumanism and the mystical, grace-centered theology of Orthodox Christianity. Harry traces these paths through their philosophical, theological, and historical foundations. He analyzes transhumanism’s functionalist anthropology, materialist epistemology, and postgenderist ethics alongside the Orthodox understanding of embodied human divinization. Orthodox thought perceives transhumanism not only as a modern Tower of Babel but also as a potential stage-set for the Antichrist, attempting to supplant divine grace with technological apotheosis.