How to Be a Human Being - Charles Foster

Creation, Theosis, and Becoming Human: Charles Foster on Orthodox Christianity, Nature, Animals, and the Image of GodHost Tuppy Morrissey interviews Oxford fellow and writer Professor Charles Foster about creation and what it means to be human, drawing on Foster’s book Being a Human and his nature-immersion experiments. Foster argues modern life estranges us from the cosmos and that humans are shaped more by encounter than ideas. The discussion covers animism, panpsychism and the Orthodox idea that God “fills all things,” technology’s effects on attention, vegetarian ideals in Genesis, practical reforms for animal welfare and education, humans as mediators/microcosm, the Incarnation’s affirmation of matter, cosmic redemption, and Foster’s reading of Genesis as anti-polytheistic and portraying rising disobedience in creation.