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Animal Theology

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ISBN-10: 0252064674

ISBN-13: 9780252064678

Edition: 1995

Authors: Andrew Linzey

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List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 1/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.638
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…    

Introduction
Establishing Theological Principles
Reverence, Responsibility and Rights
Reverence for Life
Responsibility to Animals
The Rights of Animals
Theocentric Orientation
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
Humans as the Servant Species
Uniqueness Spotting
The Suffering God
Sacrificial Priesthood
Service as Uniqueness
Objections Considered
Liberation Theology for Animals
The Dogma of Humanism
Humanocentric Constriction
Recovering Christological Connections
Three Objections
Animal Rights and Parasitical Nature
The Vampire's Dilemma
Parasitical Predicaments
Rethinking Natural Law
Trans-Natural Moral Imperative
Objections to Vegetarianism
Challenging Ethical Practice
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
Hunting as the Anti-Gospel of Predation
Hunting with Jesus
Conscientious Christian Killing
Jesus our Predator
The Sacrifice for All
Deliverance from Bondage
Vegetarianism as a Biblical Ideal
Food of Paradise
Ambiguous Permission
Living without Violence
Prince of Peace
Approximating the Peaceable Kingdom
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
Notes
Guide to the Literature
Acknowledgments
Index