Animals on the Agenda: Questions about Animals for Theology and Ethics

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Andrew Linzey, Dorothy Yamamoto
University of Illinois Press, 1998 - Nature - 297 pages
This encyclopedic volume is the most comprehensive collection of original

studies on animals and theology ever published. Contributors from both

sides of the Atlantic tackle fundamental questions about theology and

how it is put into practice.

Do animals have immortal souls? Does Christ's reconciling work include

animals? Contributors address these issues and more in the context of

scriptural perspectives, the Christian tradition, historical disputes,

and obligations to animals.

As Andrew Linzey points out in his introduction, it cannot be right for

theological practitioners to carry on their business as though the world

of animals were invisible. Mainstream Christianity still propagates a

range of ideas about animals that are hugely detrimental to their status

and welfare. This important volume argues that it is time for a change.

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Contents

What was the Meaning of Animal Sacrifice?
8
What was the Meaning of Classifying Animals as Clean or Unclean?
18
A New Testament Doctrine of Creation?
25
Jesus and Animals I What did he Teach?
33
Jesus and Animals II What did he Practise?
49
Wrestling with the Tradition
61
𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏
63
The Fathers and the Animals The Rule of Reason?
67
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑭𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏
147
Can Animal Suffering be Reconciled with Belief in an AllLoving God?
161
𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑹𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏
173
Do Animals have Immortal Souls?
181
Will Animals be Redeemed?
190
Obligations to Animals
201
𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏
203
Can we See a Moral Question about Animals?
206

Aquinas and Animals Patrolling the Boundary?
80
Luther and Animals Subject to Adams Fall?
90
Can Catholic Morality Make Room for Animals?
100
Disputed Questions
113
𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏
115
Is Nature Gods Will?
123
How does Gods Providential Care Extend to Animals?
137
Tyrants Stewards or Just Kings?
216
Compassion or Justice? What is our Minimum Ethical Obligation to Animals?
225
Is the Consistent Ethic of Life Consistent without a Concern for Animals?
237
𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒖𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒔
248
𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒔
253
𝑰𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒙
291
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