For Love of Animals Christian Ethics, Consistent Action

Name: For Love of Animals Christian Ethics, Consistent Action
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ISBN: 9781616366629

ISBN-10: 1616366621

ISBN-13: 9781616366629

Edition: 2013

Authors: Charles C. Camosy

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For Love of Animals is an honest and thoughtful look at our responsibility as Christians in the way we treat animals. Many Christians misunderstand both history and their own tradition in thinking about animals. They are joined by many secular thinkers, who wish to paint Christianity as being responsible for how the Western world has failed to lead the charge in considering issues of animal rights.The book connects readers to the moral framework of the arguments for the ethical treatment of animals: nonviolence, inclusion of the vulnerable into our sphere of moral concern, and most important, regard for the consistent ethic of life. The focus of the content goes beyond the…

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List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Franciscan Media
Publication date: 10/4/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 152
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.50" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Charles C. Camosy is Assistant Professor of Theology at Fordham University, New York. He is author of Too Expensive to Treat?: Finitude, Tragedy and the Neonatal ICU (2010).



Acknowledgments


Foreword



Justice for Animals?



Christianity and Speciesism



Christianity and the Nonhuman: From Angels to Aliens



Animals and the Bible



Saints and Other Great Christian Figures



Contemporary Teachings and Views



Factory Farming



Eating Meat



Research, Hunting, and Pets



A Consistent Ethic of Life


Notes