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Cyborg selves : a theological anthropology of the posthuman / Jeanine Thweatt-Bates.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Ashgate science and religion seriesPublisher: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (xii, 212 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781409421429
  • 1409421422
  • 9781409421412
  • 1409421414
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cyborg selves.DDC classification:
  • 233 23
LOC classification:
  • BL256 .T55 2012eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
The cyborg manifesto -- The transhumanist manifesto -- Post-anthropologies -- Theological anthropologies -- Constructing a theological post-anthropology -- Christology and the posthuman.
Summary: What is the "posthuman?" Is becoming posthuman inevitable-something which will happen to us, or something we will do to ourselves? Why do some long for it, while others fearfully reject it? This book aims to clarify current theological and philosophical dialogue on the posthuman by arguing that theologians must pay attention to which form of the posthuman they are engaging, and to demonstrate that a "posthuman theology" is not only possible, but desirable, when the vision of the posthuman is one which coincides with a theological vision of the human.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The cyborg manifesto -- The transhumanist manifesto -- Post-anthropologies -- Theological anthropologies -- Constructing a theological post-anthropology -- Christology and the posthuman.

Print version record.

What is the "posthuman?" Is becoming posthuman inevitable-something which will happen to us, or something we will do to ourselves? Why do some long for it, while others fearfully reject it? This book aims to clarify current theological and philosophical dialogue on the posthuman by arguing that theologians must pay attention to which form of the posthuman they are engaging, and to demonstrate that a "posthuman theology" is not only possible, but desirable, when the vision of the posthuman is one which coincides with a theological vision of the human.