University of Edinburgh. 2008. Ph.D. Theology & Ethics  

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Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. 2000. M.Div. Summa cum Laude.

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Iowa State University. 1994. B.S. Electrical Engineering 

Todd Daly is Associate Professor of Theology and Ethics at Urbana Theological Seminary. His interests are in the areas of theological anthropology as it relates to technology, embodiment and human enhancement, bioethics, and contemporary culture. He teaches courses in systematic theology and doctrinal electives in Christian theology, Christian ethics, Christian bioethics, and apologetics. Future course offerings will include special topics in bioethics and technology, such as Artificial Intelligence, and a theological critique of the biomedical and cultural views of sleep and insomnia in our late modern age.

 

Dr. Daly has published widely in the fields of theological bioethics, addressing topics that include transhumanism, slowing human aging, Baconian science, moral bioenhancement, gender dysphoria, and AI and deep aging clocks. Dr. Daly’s work on slowing aging was featured on the cover of Christianity Today in 2011, and subsequent monograph, Chasing Methuselah, is considered one of the best theological treatments of this complex topic. His latest work includes a forthcoming (2027) chapter, “How AI is Already Making Us Less than Human,” in Human Flourishing in an Age of AI, ed. Mihretu P. Guta and Louise Ko Huang (London: Bloomsbury Press, 2027). Dr. Daly is also currently writing a book which addresses sleep from a theological perspective, interpreting this overlooked, universal human phenomenon through the Christian doctrinal lenses of the Trinity (the God who never sleeps), doctrine of creation (the God who created sleep), Christological anthropology (Christ and sleep), revelation (on dreams), and eschatology (death and sleep).