Articles by Michael Hanby

About Michael Hanby
Michael Hanby is an Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy of Science at the John Paul II Institute at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of Augustine and Modernity (2003), No God, No Science: Theology, Cosmology, and Biology (2013), and numerous journal and magazine articles.
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The Artificial God

December 7, 2025 Michael Hanby 5

Modern politics began in the seventeenth century with a technological ambition: to build an “artificial man, though of greater stature and strength than the natural,” an “automaton that moves by springs and wheeles as doth […]