God or Nature? A Western Dilemma: Reply to Simon Oliver

Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1999 (116):119-134 (1999)
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Abstract

Simon Oliver argues that the modern culture-nature divide is bound to collapse, because of the relentless expansion of technology into culture and nature.1 This breakdown could lead to a new appreciation of both, but only if the divide is replaced by a truly transcendental theology. Otherwise, culture and nature will continue to be seen as subjects and objects. Oliver raises issues crucial to the understanding of predominant cognitive categories: the durability of the culture-nature divide; its theological foundations and the prospect of changing them by means of an alternative theology; and the role of objective (e.g., technological diffusion) and subjective…

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