ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the Christological doctrine and heresies negotiated in the years leading up to the Council of Chalcedon. In a posthuman context it may be helpful to consider Christ as the "ultimate human", the expression of humanity to which human aspire as the fulfillment of the potential and longing for goodness that characterizes them as creatures of God. For Waters, Christ the fully divine human stands in judgment of the emerging possibility of any form of the post-human, leading to his theological rejection of posthuman theologies as necessarily lacking "any compelling Christology". Haraway's interpretation of Jesus and Sojourner Truth as figures of humanity outside the narratives of humanism provides a glimpse into what Haraway herself calls the spiritual meaning of Cyborg discourse. Interpreting the Cyborg Christ as the ultimate human leads systematically into the loci of pneumatology and eschatology, and reflexively doubles back to theological anthropology, deepening our understanding of themselves as posthuman in the process.
