C hristology and Anti‐Humanism

This article engages the current anti‐humanist or post‐human ethos from the point of view of C hristology. Invoking A lain B adiou's claim that “the man of humanism has not survived the twentieth century”, it argues that the death of “the man of humanism” ushers in a situation in which the C hristian proposal can be clarified in two crucial ways: (1) C hristology is the core of C hristian anthropology, and therefore must be the first and last word of the C hurch's formulation of her answer to the question that is every human life; (2) there is no neutral “human” ground in which the C hurch can carry on a discourse about “humanism” or “natural law”. The current situation thus forces a theological decision: either the death of man or the G od‐ M an.