Neighbors, neighbor-love, and our animal neighbors
Defining the Christian duty to those around them as "neighbor-love", Kristin Johnston Largen understands this as the necessity of taking actions to work for those around us. She then suggests that this concept of "neighbor-love", with its imperative to action, must also be expand...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Seminaries
[2017]
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Word & world
Year: 2017, Volume: 37, Issue: 1, Pages: 37-45 |
| IxTheo Classification: | NCC Social ethics NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Love
Religious aspects
Christianity
B Animals Religious aspects Christianity B Endangered species B Environmental degradation B Ethics, Christian B Neighborliness B Jesus Christ B Human Beings Relation to nature B Relation (Theology) |
| Summary: | Defining the Christian duty to those around them as "neighbor-love", Kristin Johnston Largen understands this as the necessity of taking actions to work for those around us. She then suggests that this concept of "neighbor-love", with its imperative to action, must also be expanded to the animals with which we share the world, and who are suffering from exploitation. |
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| ISSN: | 0275-5270 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Word & world
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