登入
選單
返回
Google圖書搜尋
Anti-Human Theology
Peter M. Scott
其他書名
Nature, Technology and the Post-Natural
出版
Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
, 2010
主題
Religion / Theology
Religion / Christian Theology / Ethics
ISBN
0334043549
9780334043546
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=WWBM4xLD9qcC&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBook
SAMPLE
註釋
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. Dr Peter Manley Scott is Senior Lecturer in Christian Social Thought and Director of the Lincoln Theological Institute at the University of Manchester, UK.