Church Podmatics
Church Podmatics is a cheerful conversation about theology in a cheerless age. On each episode we take a new or significant essay in theology and think it through from the perspective of Christian faith and ministry. Our hosts: The Rev Dr Andrew Errington (Sydney, Australia: Rector of Newtown-Erskineville Anglican Church)Matthew Mason (Salisbury, UK: Tutor in Christian Ethics at The Pastors Academy, Chaplain at Moorlands College, Theologian-in-Residence at Evangelicals Now)The Rev Dr Matt Wilcoxen (Sydney, Australia: Rector at St John's Darlinghurst)
Church Podmatics
Incarnation, Posthumanism, and Performative Anthropology
In this episode we discuss Michael S. Burdett's 2022 article "Incarnation, Posthumanism and Performative Anthropology: The Body of Technology and the Body of Christ." It is available in the journal Christian bioethics.
According to Burdett, posthumanism is more pervasive than we realize, both in the contemporary public discourse and in the field of medicine, but Christian engagement with posthumanism has focused too narrowly on the cognitive beliefs of posthumanism while ignoring the practices of posthumanism in which we are all already enmeshed. Thus Burdett seeks to uncover some of the core practices of posthumanism, and then proposes the core Christian practice of the Eucharist that can, at the very least, serve as a corrective to posthumanism.