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Anti-human Theology

Nature,Technology and the Postnatural

Anti-human Theology

Nature,Technology and the Postnatural

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£65.00

Publisher: SCM Press
ISBN: 9780334043546
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 29/04/2010
Width: 23.4 cm
Height: 15.6 cm

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 criticises 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.

Peter M. Scott, Celia E. Deane-Drummond

Dr Peter Manley Scott is Senior Lecturer in Christian Social Thought and Director of the Lincoln Theological Institute at the University of Manchester, UK.

Click here to read the review which appeared in the Church Times.

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