Animal theology

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Animal theology

Title:

Animal theology

Author:

Linzey, Andrew.

ISBN:

9780252021701

9780252064678

Personal Author:

Linzey, Andrew.

Edition:

University of Illinois Press ed.

Publication Information:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1995.

Physical Description:

x, 214 p. ; 22 cm.

General Note:

"An Illini book"--Cover.

"First published in 1994 by SCM Press, Ltd., London"--T.p. verso.

Contents:

Pt. 1. Establishing Theological Principles. 1. Reverence, Responsibility and Rights. Reverence for Life. Responsibility to Animals. The Rights of Animals. Theocentric Orientation. 2. The Moral Priority of the Weak. The Equality Paradigm. The Generosity Paradigm. Drawing the Line. Special Relationships: Children and Animals. Ill-Gotten Gains. Two Objections. 3. Humans as the Servant Species. Uniqueness Spotting. The Suffering God. Sacrificial Priesthood. Service as Uniqueness. Objections Considered. 4. Liberation Theology for Animals. The Dogma of Humanism. Humanocentric Constriction. Recovering Christological Connections. Three Objections. 5. Animal Rights and Parasitical Nature. The Vampire's Dilemma. Parasitical Predicaments. Rethinking Natural Law. Trans-Natural Moral Imperative. Objections to Vegetarianism -- Pt. 2. Challenging Ethical Practice. 6. Animal Experiments as Un-Godly Sacrifices. The Theological Basis of the Value of Creation. Moral Implications.

Animals as Sacrificial Victims. A Critique of Animal Experiments. 7. Hunting as the Anti-Gospel of Predation. Hunting with Jesus. Conscientious Christian Killing. Jesus our Predator. The Sacrifice for All. Deliverance from Bondage. 8. Vegetarianism as a Biblical Ideal. Food of Paradise. Ambiguous Permission. Living without Violence. Prince of Peace. Approximating the Peaceable Kingdom. 9. Genetic Engineering as Animal Slavery. Animal Revolution. Belonging to and Existing for. Patenting and Creation Doctrine. The Discredited Theology of Genetic Engineering. Four Objections. Eugenics and Genetic Engineering.

Subject Term:

Animals -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.

Animal rights -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.

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Summary

"What are we to say of a theology which has so proceeded on the basis of a moral neglet of God's creatures?" asks Andrew Linzey. In Animal Theology , he seeks ways in which doctrine can help morally motivated Christians to perceive meaning in animal suffering.

In Linzey's view, animal rights is synonymous with animal theology. Linzey argues that historical theology, creatively defined, must reject humanocentricity. Questioning the assumption that if theology is to speak on this issue, "it must only do so on the side of the oppressors," Linzey investigates not only the abstractions of theory, but also the realities of hunting, animal experimentation, and genetic engineering. His is a pioneering, vital, and unequivocally Christian voice advocating on behalf of the countless creatures who share our world and our lives but cannot speak for themselves.