Creatures of the same God explorations in animal theology
Introduction: "They're only animals -- for heaven's sake!" -- Religion and sensitivity to animal suffering -- Theology as if animals mattered -- Animal rights and animal theology -- The conflict between ecotheology and animal theology -- Responding to the debate about animal theo...
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Lantern Publishing & Media
2020
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction: "They're only animals -- for heaven's sake!" -- Religion and sensitivity to animal suffering -- Theology as if animals mattered -- Animal rights and animal theology -- The conflict between ecotheology and animal theology -- Responding to the debate about animal theology -- Jesus and animals : a different perspective -- Animals and vegetarianism in early Chinese Christianity -- On being an animal liturgist -- Summing up : towards a prophetic church for animals -- Appendix: An open letter to the bishops on hunting In this collection of essays, Linzey counters with his customary wit, erudition, and insight, some contemporary (and perhaps surprising) challenges to animal rights -- from ecotheologians, the Church, and politicians. He contends that far from the sometimes shallow judgments of those who think animals unworthy of theological consideration, the Christian tradition has a wellspring of sources and resources available to taking animals seriously. Instead of being marginal to the Christian experience, Linzey concludes, animals can take their rightful place alongside human beings as creatures of the same God. There is a long forgotten spiritual tradition that two children, both named Jesus, were born in Bethlehem to two sets of parents named Joseph and Mary. This tradition is supported by the different accounts of the nativity and life of Jesus Christ in the gospels of Matthew and Luke. Although the Church chose to ignore this tradition, something of it survived in early Christian art and symbolism. The full tradition was preserved only in the literature of esoteric sects such as Gnosticism, which remained outside the official teachings of institutionalized Christianity. -- Provided by publisher |
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| Beschreibung: | Originally published: Winchester, England : Winchester University Press, 2007 |
| Beschreibung: | xx, 139 Seiten 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781590561423 978-1-59056-142-3 |