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Author Thweatt-Bates, Jeanine, author.

Title Cyborg selves : a theological anthropology of the posthuman / Jeanine Thweatt-Bates
Published Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 212 pages) : illustrations
Series Ashgate science and religion series
Ashgate science and religion series.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Theological anthropology.
Philosophical anthropology.
Human evolution.
Human beings -- Forecasting
Cyborgs.
philosophical anthropology.
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Anthropology.
Cyborgs
Human evolution
Philosophical anthropology
Theological anthropology
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011050161
ISBN 9781409421429
1409421422
9781409421412
1409421414