ABSTRACT
This chapter explores Haraway's Cyborg as the positive construction of the posthuman, one which resonates with, and can serve as a prompt to recover, useful concepts present within the Christian tradition. Systematic theological work on the ways in which a Cyborg anthropology restructures notions of human subjectivity and relationality, particularly within the context of Christian theological anthropologies which employ relational interpretations of the imago dei, remains to be done. The Cyborg highlights an analytic dimension implicit in the categories of the global economy and the military, but which is sufficiently complex in its own right to require focused attention: technology. Postcolonial theologians have made the connection between bodily hybridity and social/ethnic hybridity, highlighting the experience of hybridity as a distinctive theological resource. The Cyborg's hybridity, extending across the human/nonhuman ontological boundaries in both ecological and technological directions, provides a provocative symbol for ecotheological work. The ecotheological implications of Cyborg hybridity are spelled out succinctly by Kevin J. O'Brien.
