Anti-Human Theology (scm Revisioning Ethics) [Paperback]

Due to the vigour of its re-engineering of the world by its technologies, western society has entered into a post-natural condition in which standard divisions between the natural and the artificial are no longer convincing. This post-natural development is liberating both theologically and politically.

Peter Manley Scott offers a theological and ethical reading of this situation, developing an anthropology that does not repeat Christianitys history of anthropocentrism but instead criticises it by exploring the mutual entanglement of animals, humans and other creatures. 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 all.