RT Article
T1 When Humans are Not Unique: Perspectives on Suffering and Redemption
JF The expository times
VO 127
IS 6
SP 269
OP 276
A1 Sollereder, Bethany
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1560746637
AB This paper explores how two realms in which humans have traditionally been thought to hold unique capacities, in suffering and in redemption, are increasingly challenged. With scientific evidence pointing strongly towards the reality of non-human suffering, new questions are also raised in theodicy. Part of the solution to the problem of suffering is redemption, and the latter half of this paper introduces and critiques several different models of creaturely redemption. These perspectives cause us to recognise the deep continuities between human and non-human animals, and they therefore encourage us to define human uniqueness more in terms of role rather than capacity.
K1 animal heaven
K1 animal redemption
K1 Animal Suffering
K1 Christians
K1 Christopher Southgate
K1 C. S. Lewis
K1 David Clough
K1 Emotions (Philosophy)
K1 EVOLUTIONARY theories
K1 human uniqueness
K1 John Wesley
K1 lobotomy
K1 Michael Murray
K1 neo-Cartesian
K1 Redemption
K1 Technological innovations
DO 10.1177/0014524615621994