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Animals on the agenda : questions about animals for theology and ethics / edited by Andrew Linzey and Dorothy Yamamoto.

By: Linzey, Andrew, 1952- [editor.]Contributor(s): Yamamoto, Dorothy [editor.]Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : SCM Press, 1998Description: xx, 297 pages : 24 cmISBN: 0334027322; 9780334027324Subject(s): Animals - Theological aspects | Animal rightsDDC classification: 241.693
Contents:
Introduction : Is Christianity irredeemably speciesist? / Andrew Linzey -- I. Understanding scriptural perspectives. -- What was the meaning of animal sacrifice? / J.W. Rogerson -- What was the meaning of classifying animals as clean or unclean? / Walter Houston -- A New Testament document of creation? / John Muddiman -- Jesus and animals : what did he teach? ; What did he practice? / Richard Bauckham -- II. Wrestling with the tradition. -- The fathers and the animals : the rule of reason? / Gillian Clark -- Aquinas and animals : patrolling the boundary? / Dorothy Yamamoto -- Luther and animals : subject to Adam's fall? / Scott Ickert -- Can Catholic morality make room for animals? / James Gaffney -- III. Disputed questions. -- Is nature God's will? / Stephen R.L. Clark -- How does God's providential care extend to animals? / Thomas E. Hosinski -- Are animals fallen? / Michael Lloyd -- Can animal suffering be reconciled with belief in an all-loving God? / Jay B. McDaniel -- All things in Christ? / John B. Cobb, Jr. -- Do animals have immortal souls? / Paul Badham -- Will animals be redeemed? / Petroc Willey, Eldred Willey -- IV. Obligations to animals. -- Can we see a moral question about animals? / Brian Klug -- Tyrants, stewards, or just kings? / Huw Spanner -- Compassion or justice? : what is our minimum ethical obligation to animals? / Paul Brett -- Is the consistent ethic of life consistent without a concern for animals? / John Berkman.
Summary: This encyclopaedic volume is the most comprehensive collection of original studies on animals and theology every published. With contributors from both sides of the Atlantic, it tackles many apparently simple issues which raise fundamental questions about theology and how it is done.
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Includes bibliographical references ([253]-290) and index.

Introduction : Is Christianity irredeemably speciesist? / Andrew Linzey -- I. Understanding scriptural perspectives. -- What was the meaning of animal sacrifice? / J.W. Rogerson -- What was the meaning of classifying animals as clean or unclean? / Walter Houston -- A New Testament document of creation? / John Muddiman -- Jesus and animals : what did he teach? ; What did he practice? / Richard Bauckham -- II. Wrestling with the tradition. -- The fathers and the animals : the rule of reason? / Gillian Clark -- Aquinas and animals : patrolling the boundary? / Dorothy Yamamoto -- Luther and animals : subject to Adam's fall? / Scott Ickert -- Can Catholic morality make room for animals? / James Gaffney --
III. Disputed questions. -- Is nature God's will? / Stephen R.L. Clark -- How does God's providential care extend to animals? / Thomas E. Hosinski -- Are animals fallen? / Michael Lloyd -- Can animal suffering be reconciled with belief in an all-loving God? / Jay B. McDaniel -- All things in Christ? / John B. Cobb, Jr. -- Do animals have immortal souls? / Paul Badham -- Will animals be redeemed? / Petroc Willey, Eldred Willey -- IV. Obligations to animals. -- Can we see a moral question about animals? / Brian Klug -- Tyrants, stewards, or just kings? / Huw Spanner -- Compassion or justice? : what is our minimum ethical obligation to animals? / Paul Brett -- Is the consistent ethic of life consistent without a concern for animals? / John Berkman.

This encyclopaedic volume is the most comprehensive collection of original studies on animals and theology every published. With contributors from both sides of the Atlantic, it tackles many apparently simple issues which raise fundamental questions about theology and how it is done.

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