On Animals: An extended review of David Clough’s two-volume work
David Clough’s two-volume work On Animals claims to be the first systematic Christian theological reflection on the place of nonhuman animals within creation which also provides an ethical reflection on what that might mean for our relationship with nonhuman animals in contemporary (Western) society...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2021
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Studies in Christian ethics
Year: 2021, Volume: 34, Issue: 1, Pages: 88-98 |
| Review of: | On animals (London [u.a.] : T & T Clark International, 2012) (Lesser, Ellen Grace)
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NBE Anthropology NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics |
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Book review
B Systematic Theology B Veganism B human distinctiveness B Nonhuman animals B Christian Ethics |
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| Summary: | David Clough’s two-volume work On Animals claims to be the first systematic Christian theological reflection on the place of nonhuman animals within creation which also provides an ethical reflection on what that might mean for our relationship with nonhuman animals in contemporary (Western) society. In this extended review, we provide a summary of the cumulative arguments across both volumes of On Animals before offering our reflections. While we agree with many though not all of Clough’s theological conclusions, we ultimately conclude that Clough’s ethical solutions are too radical in places, and too optimistic without economic and systemic changes as to how humans relate to the nonhuman world. |
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| ISSN: | 0953-9468 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studies in Christian ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0953946820965008 |