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On God and Dogs A Christian Theology of Compassion for Animals

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ISBN-10: 0195152298

ISBN-13: 9780195152296

Edition: 2002

Authors: Stephen H. Webb, Andrew Linzey

List price: $56.00
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Many of us keep pet animals; we rely on them for companionship and unconditional love. For some people their closest relationships may be with their pets. In the wake of the animal rights movement, some ethicists have started to re-examine this relationship, and to question the rights of humans to "own" other sentient beings in this way. In this engaging and thought-provoking book, Stephen Webb brings a Christian perspective to bear on the subject of our responsibility to animals, looked at through the lens of our relations with pets--especially dogs. Webb argues that the emotional bond with companion animals should play a central role in the way we think about animals in general,…    
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List price: $56.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/10/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 9.09" wide x 5.98" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Andrew Linzey is a member of the Faculty of Theology, Oxford University, and Bede Jarrett Senior Research Fellow at Blackfriars. He is also honorary professor in theology at Birmingham University and special professor at Saint Xavier University, Chicago. He has written or edited twenty books, including Aninal Theology, Animal Rites: Liturgies of Animal Care, and Animals on the Agenda: Questions about Animals for Theology and Ethics.Paul Barry Clarke, as a teacher and researcher in the Department of Government at the University of Essex, has written and edited over twelve books in political philosophy. He is the author of Autonomy Unbound, Deep Citizenship, and Citizenship, and has recently…    

Foreword: Voyage to the Animal World
Introduction: Pet Theories
Surveying the Options
God and the Giving of Animals
Theological Method
The Biblical Record
The Christian Tradition
Hauerwas and Berkman on a Biblical Foundation for Animal Welfare
Andrew Linzey and the Theology of Animal Rights
Ecology versus the Peaceable Kingdom
Process Thought and the Luring of Animals
Environmental Theology and the Reclamation of Nature
Ecofeminism and Animal Compassion
The Rhetoric of Rights and the Demands of Care
Thinking about Pets
What Are Dogs For?
The Other as More of the Same?
The Other as Social Self
The Other as Personal Self
The Difference That Dogs Make
Pets, Women, Meat, and Rhetoric
Vicki Hearne on the Language of Training
Keeping the Other Other
Reading Excess
Excess as More Than Other
A Theology for the Dogs
Theology and Dogtalk
The Sensibility of Sentiment
Evolution and the Problem of Animal Pain
God as a Lover of Dogs
The Sacrificial Economy of Christian Theology
Economics and Sacrifice
Karl Barth's Sacrificial Economy of Animals
Hebrew Sacrifice and the Covenant
The End of Sacrifice
Jesus Christ and the Future of Animals
A Vegetarian Eucharist
The Cosmic Christ and the Church for All Creatures
Animal Afterlife
Epilogue: God's Nature as the Future of the World
Notes
Bibliography
Index