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.
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