Anti-human theology
Subtitle: nature, technology and the postnatural
By: Peter Manley Scott
Series: Revisioning ethics; Re-Visioning ethics
Publisher: SCM Press; Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780334043546
Subjects: Theologische Ethik; Christian ethics; Natur; Nature; Technologie; Christianity
Description: Peter Manley Scott offers a theological and ethical reading of our present situation. Due to the vigour of its re-engineering of the world by its technologies, western society has entered into a postnatural condition in which standard divisions between the natural and the artificial are no longer convincing. This postnatural development is liberating - both theologically and politically. Scott develops an 'anthropology' that does not repeat Christianity's history of anthropocentrism but instead criticizes it by exploring the mutual entanglement of animals, humans and other creatures. Deeply disrespectful of traditional centres of power, his ethical critiques of 'pioneering' technologies expose their anti-social and anti-ecological tendencies and identify possible paths of oppositional political action. This is ethical theology at its best: deeply informed by theological tradition, immersed in contemporary political-technological problematics in radically oppositional ways, and yet fiercely hopeful of a good outcome for animals - human and non-human - and other life in history. (Publisher).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Situating the postnatural; title: Postnatural humanity? Bonhoeffer on freedom and order in creation; title: The end of nature and the last human?; title: A theology of the anti-human; title: Slouching towards Jerusalem? an anti-human theology of rough beasts and other animals; title: The postnatural as anti-human? Resurrection, natality and creatureliness; title: Technology in a postnatural condition; title: Imaging God : creatureliness and technology; title: The technological factor : redemption, nature and the image of God; title: We have never been Gods : transcendence, contingency and the affirmation of hybridity; title: Is the goodness of God good enough? the Human Genome Project in theological and political perspectives; title: Living the postnatural; title: Anarchy in the UK? GM crops, political authority and the rioting of God; title: The city's grace : recycling the urban ecology.